Radhanagri Wildlife Sanctuary
- Radhanagri Wildlife Sanctuary
Radhanagri Wildlife Sanctuary, the first wildlife sanctuary of Maharashtra, was notified in 1958. It lies at the southern end of the Sahyadri sub-cluster and is popularly known as "Bison Sanctuary" as the Indian Bison or gaur (Bos gaurus) is the flagship species of the area.
It consists of the catchment area of the two major reservoirs namely Rajarshi Shahu Sagar and Laxmi Sagar in Radhanagari Taluka of Kolhapur district. Bhogavati, Dudhganga, Tulshi, Kallamma and Dirba rivers flow through the sanctuary area and which drain out into the Krishna river, a major river of the Deccan Peninsula. Radhanagari Wildlife Sanctuary contains some of the tropical evergreen forests typical of the northern Western Ghats. [UNESCO, World Heritage sites, Tentative lists, Western Ghats sub cluster, Sahyadri, 2007. [http://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/2103/] ] .
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