NATIONAL
PARKS IN NEPAL
SUKLAPHANTA
WILDLIFE RESERVE
Area : 499
sq. km.
Established : 1984
Location :
Parsa Wildlife Reserve occupies
parts of Chitwan, Makawanpur, Parsa
and Bara Districts in central Nepal.
The reserve headquarters is situated
at Adabar on the Hetauda-Birgunj highway.
Feature :
The dominant landscape of the reserve
are the Churiya hills ranging from 750
m. to 950 m. and running east-west through
the reserve. The reserve has sub-tropical
forest types with sal constituting 90%
of the vegetation. In the Churiya
hills and along the streams, chir
pine grows. Khair, sissoo and the silk
cotton tree also occur. Sabai grass,
a commercially important species, grows
well along southern face of the Churiya
hills.
The reserve supports
a good population of resident wild elephant,
tiger, leopard, sloth bear, gaur, blue
bull, and wild dog. Other common animals
are sambar, chital, hog deer, barking
deer, langur, striped hyena, ratel,
palm civet and jungle cat.
There are nearly
300 species of birds in the reserve.
Giant hornbill, peafowl, red jungle
fowl, flycatchers and woodpeckers are
a few of the other common birds found
in the reserve.
Many kinds
of snakes including king cobra, common
cobra, krait, rat snake and python
are found in the reserve due to hot
tropical climate.
