Date ( Publication )

2012-03-01

Purpose

This checklist was prepared to bridge the existing knowledge gap on biodiversity in the Mahananda Wildlife sanctuary.

Status

Completed

Maintenance and update frequency

Unknown

Keywords ( Theme )

• Species
• Plants
• Seed Plants
• Angiosperms
• Gymnosperms
• Biodiversity

Keywords ( Place )

• Kangchenjunga Corridor
• Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary
• Khangchendzonga Biosphere Reserve
• Kangchenjunga Conservation Area
• Kangchenjunga Landscape
• Taplejung
• Panchthar
• Ilam
• Eastern Nepal
• India
• HKH-BIF

Use limitation

ICIMOD (2008) Kangchenjunga Landscape Biodiversity Database

Access constraints

Copyright

Use constraints

Copyright

Spatial representation type

Text, table

Metadata language

eng

Character set

UTF8

Topic category

• Biota

Description

The Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary is the most important sanctuary in north Bengal. It is located on the west bank of the Teesta River in the Terai plains of Darjeeling. It includes nine major forest ranges: Kalijhora, Latpanchor, Punding, Sukuna, Gulma, Toribari, Sevoke, Seventh Mile, and Latlong. Vegetation types include grassland, riparian forest, floodplain forest, sal forest, and mixed forest near the river, with drought deciduous hill forest at higher elevations. The Terai belt of the Sanctuary is an important corridor for elephants migrating from Nepal through West Bengal to Assam.

OnLine resource

HKH-BIF Portal ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Source

File identifier

34f1dfb7-e083-4d3a-83a5-a25088fda250 XML

Metadata language

eng

Character set

UTF8

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Date stamp

2020-09-08T14:44:41

Metadata standard name

North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003