Annamalias, Western ghats.

western ghats is one of the biodiversity hot spots of the world with very high varying flora and fauna. It has very rare and endangered species of animals like Lion tail macque, King cobra, Nilgiri marten etc along with other animals like Tiger, Leopard , gaur, Elephant, Barking deer, crocodiles, Nilgiri thar etc. But due to population growth slowly this area is being converted in to Tea and coffee estates. The rain forest in this area is being fragmented and very few steps are being taken to prevent this . There is lot and more research work to be done in this area to save our western ghats.