Nature & Wildlife in Kerala
Kerala’s Nature is a bountiful contribution of God. Vegetation all around. Rivers and streams all around. Evergreen western ghats on one side and the gigantic Arabian Sea on the other – a difference from rest of India, from rest of world. The monsoon winds pinned over Kerala by western ghats eminently release their precious wealth on this strip of land. Along the ghats beautiful hills and peaks overlook the plantations of rubber, tea, coffee, cardamon, orange – evergreen round the year with lovely cool. Plains head up with paddy fields, coconut palm groves, plantains and the like with overwhelming greenery. Down coastal area is beautified with backwaters and greenic and scenic coconut palm groves all along with unlimited sea-breeze all around.
Kerala boasts some of the surviving rain-forests on earth. The giant wide-spread dense trees and numerous lakes and streams in the forests are a heaven to wildlife. The hills and peaks along western ghats from part of Thiruvananthapuram district to Wayanad districts are the favourite havens of wildlife. Thekkady rightly grabs dominant position of wildlife in Kerala. Kerala forests are more amenable to wildlife and wildlife in Kerala is a friendly lot not venturing unnecessarily to protest the presence of two-leggers. Kerala’s landlocked hill districts, Idukki, Palakkad and Wayanad are ideal hangouts for animal and nature lovers. Cloud wrapped and mist-clad hill stations, dense forests, wide-specied wildlife reserves, trekking trails, rafting romps, stunning wafterfalls – all are feasts to travelers
