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济宁市2023年高考模拟考试
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With two documentaries—All That Breathes and The Elephant Whisperers—making it to the Oscars, there’s renewed interest in India’s diverse wildlife. However, most popular wildlife parks are usually expensive. Here are four less-known reserves that are not so costly but equally worth exploring.
Coring a Wildlife Reserve
Coringa is the second largest mangrove forest in the country. It is a birder’s paradise and also home to otters, jackals, fishing cats and estuarine crocodiles. Endangered Olive Ridley sea turtles nest here during January—March every year.
COSTOFRIDE: ₤400一2,500per person by boat
BEST TIME TO VISIT: November to February
National Chambal Reserve
The 5,400 sq km reserve is the only one in India with three keystone species—Ganges river dolphin, ghariyal and red-crowned roof turtle—along with eight rare turtle species and about 300 species of migratory and resident birds,
COST OF RIDE: ₤1,800 per person by boat
BEST TIME TO VISIT: November to March
Gulf of Mannar Marine National Park
The park has 21 small islands and three distinct coastal ecosystems—coral reef, seagrass bed and mangroves—with over 4,200 species of plants and animals. It is the last reserve of the unique “living fossil” Balanogloss us that links vertebrates(脊椎动物) and invertebrates.
COST OF RIDE: ₤200—400 per person in a glass-bottomed boat
BEST TIME TO VISIT: October to March
Man as National Park
This reserve is a UNESCO Natural World Heritage Site. It is home to the threatened Indian Rhinoceros and other rare species like the Red Panda, Golden Langur and Pygmy Hog, and is also a Project Tiger Reserve and an elephant reserve with around 55 species of mammals, 450 species of birds and 50 species of reptiles.
COST OF RIDE: 1,150 per he