KODIAKKARAI WILD LIFE SANCTUARY

Sept. 22, 2019

A unique exercise of rehabitating deer population has been started in the Kodiakkarai Wild Life sanctuary in Tamilnadu. The deers are being brought up from the protected environment in the Sivagangai park.

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Kodiakkarai Wild Life sanctuary is also known as Point Calimere Wildlife and Bird Sanctuary (PCWBS).
It is a protected area in Tamil Nadu, along the Palk Strait where it meets the Bay of Bengal at Point Calimere (Kodiakkarai) at the tip of Nagapattinam District.
The sanctuary was created in 1967 for conservation of the near threatened blackbuck antelope, an endemic mammal species of India.

Source : All India Radio

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