Bishali Glacier

Flora & fauna — Kedarnath Wildlife Sanctuary

This place lies within Kedarnath Wildlife Sanctuary.

Flora The sanctuary is reputed to be one of the world's richest bio-reserves. It is host to temperate forests in the middle altitudes; higher elevations are dotted by coniferous, sub-alpine and alpine forests, and further up by alpine grasslands and high-altitude bugyals. The diverse climate and topography in the sanctuary area has created dense forests of chir pine, oak, birch, rhododendrons and alpine meadows with incidence of numerous Himalayan flowering plants. At Tungnath, two sedges, Carex lacta and C. munda, have been reported which had previously only been reported in the far west region of Nepal. The sanctuary is reputed to have many high value medicinal and aromatic plant species, of which 22 species are rare and endangered. Aconitum balfourii, Angelica glauca, Arnebia benthamii, Artemisia maritima, Bergenia stracheyi, and Dactylorhiza hatagirea are among the threatened medicinal plant species of the sanctuary. Rhododendrons(Ericaceae) pindrow fir (Also known as West Himalayan Fir) Danthonia decumbens Fauna The sanctuary is rich in faunal, avifaunal and aquafaunal speci…

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Terrain & setting

slope & aspect are approximate, estimated from the elevation model.