Western Ghats- A Bio diversity hotspot and World Natural Heritage

To understand the appeal of traveling to Western Ghats you only need to look at the statistics-A biodiversity hotspot on earth, A world natural heritage, It holds 20 types of forests,30% Asian elephant, 17% of the world’s existing tigers, 4000 species of flowering plants,18 species of endemic mammals,21 species of endemic birds,More than 30% of all plant, fish, herpeto-fauna, bird, and mammal species found in India,137 species of mammals, 540 species of birds, 179 species of amphibians, 102 species of fishes, 93 species of reptiles,Many foraging tribes surviving in this deep jungle of rainforests. WILDLIFE TOURISM IN KERALA