Place · mountain range · India
Western Ghats
The 39 individual properties along the 1,600-kilometre escarpment of the Western Ghats, running from Gujarat through Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu. The range is a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2012 and one of the eight 'hottest hotspots' of biological diversity in the world. The Ghats hold 7,402 species of flowering plants, 1,814 non-flowering plants, 139 mammal species, 508 bird species, 179 amphibian species — about 325 globally threatened species. Over 60% of the plant species are endemic. The isolation of the Western Ghats dates to the Gondwana breakup around 150 million years ago. The 2011 Gadgil Report and 2013 Kasturirangan Report framed the ongoing conservation vs development policy debate.
- Date
- 2012
- Function
- Archaeology & heritage
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 13.000, 75.000
Connections (1)
- In the same set asGreat Himalayan National Park
The Western Ghats and the Great Himalayan National Park are the two mountain-system properties, and both were negotiated down. The Ghats nomination was reduced to thirty-nine components after state objections; the Himalayan park was created by curtailing village grazing and herb-collection rights in the buffer. Conservation designation in India is a settlement with people who live there, not a wilderness declaration.
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Sources
List of World Heritage Sites in India — Wikipedia
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