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Tamil Nadu Forest Department

Index Tamil Nadu Forest Department

The Tamil Nadu Forest Department was established as the Madras Forest Department in 1855 by Dr Hugh Francis Cleghorn, "the father of scientific forestry in India". [1]

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Agasthyamala Biosphere Reserve

The Agasthyamalai Biosphere Reserve (ABR) (Malayalam: അഗസ്ത്യമല ജെെവ സംരക്ഷണ മേഖല) was Established in 2001 and includes of which 1828 km² is in Kerala and 1672.36 km² is in Tamil Nadu.

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Amirthi Zoological Park

Amirthi Zoological Park is a zoo in Tiruvannamalai District in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

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Anamalai Tiger Reserve

Anamalai Tiger Reserve, earlier known as Indira Gandhi Wildlife Sanctuary and National Park (IGWLS&NP) and previously as Anamalai Wildlife Sanctuary, is a protected area located in the Anaimalai Hills of Pollachi, Valparai and Udumalpet taluks of Coimbatore District and Tiruppur District, Tamil Nadu state, South India.

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Arignar Anna Zoological Park

Arignar Anna Zoological Park (abbreviated AAZP), also known as the Vandalur Zoo, is a zoological garden located in Vandalur, a suburb in the southwestern part of Chennai, Tamil Nadu, about from the city centre and from Chennai Airport.

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Berijam Lake

Berijam Lake is a reservoir near Kodaikanal town in Dindigul district of Tamil Nadu, South India.

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Bodamalai Betta

Bodamalai Betta is a mountain in the Eastern Ghats of South India.

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Chennai

Chennai (formerly known as Madras or) is the capital of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

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Conservation movement

The conservation movement, also known as nature conservation, is a political, environmental, and social movement that seeks to protect natural resources including animal and plant species as well as their habitat for the future.

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Douglas Hamilton

General Douglas Hamilton (8 April 1818 – 20 January 1892) was a British Indian Army officer, gazetted to the 21st Regiment of the Madras Native Infantry from 1837 to 1871.

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Environment and Forests Department (Tamil Nadu)

The Department of Environment and Forests of State of Tamil Nadu is one of the departments of Government of Tamil Nadu.

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Flora and fauna of Chennai

The flora and fauna of Chennai are the plants and animals in Chennai, India.

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Gass Forest Museum

Gass Forest Museum is a government run natural history museum situated at Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, South India.

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George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon

George Frederick Samuel Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon, (24 October 1827 – 9 July 1909), styled Viscount Goderich from 1833 to 1859 and known as the Earl of Ripon in 1859 and as the Earl de Grey and Ripon from 1859 to 1871, was a British politician who served in every Liberal cabinet from 1861 until the year before his death, which took place forty-eight years later.

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Grizzled Squirrel Wildlife Sanctuary

The Grizzled Squirrel Wildlife Sanctuary (GSWS), also known as Srivilliputhur Wildlife Sanctuary, was established in 1988 to protect the vulnerable grizzled giant squirrel (Ratufa macroura).

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Guindy National Park

Guindy National Park is a Protected area of Tamil Nadu, located in Chennai, South India, is the 8th smallest National Park of India and one of the very few national parks situated inside a city.

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Gulf of Mannar Marine National Park

The Gulf of Mannar Marine National Park is a protected area of India consisting of 21 small islands (islets) and adjacent coral reefs in the Gulf of Mannar in the Indian Ocean.

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Hogenakkal Eco Tourism

Hogenakkal are waterfalls located in Dharmapuri district of the state Tamil Nadu, India.

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Hugh Cleghorn (forester)

Hugh Francis Clarke Cleghorn of Stravithie, FRSE FLS LLD (9 August 1820 – 16 May 1895) was a Madras-born Scottish physician who worked in India and pioneered as a botanist and in forest conservancy.

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Kodaikanal

Kodaikanal is a city near to Palani in the hills of the Dindigul district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India.

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Kodaikanal–Munnar Road

The Kodaikanal–Munnar Road (old SH-18) was located in Dindigul District and Theni District of Tamil Nadu and Idukki district of Kerala in South India.

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Kukkal

Kookal is a Panchayat village of terrace farmers at the far western end of the Palani Hills in Kodaikanal block of Dindigul district, Tamil Nadu state, South India.

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Kutladampatti Falls

Kutladampatti Falls is a waterfall located in the village of Kutladampatti near Vadipatti in Madurai district about northwest of Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India.

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List of waterfalls of India

This is a list of notable waterfalls in India sorted by state.

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M. E. Grant Duff

Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff (21 February 1829 – 12 January 1906), known as M. E. Grant Duff before 1887 and as Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff thereafter, was a Scottish politician, administrator and author.

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Manjampatti Valley

Manjampatti Valley is a protected area in the eastern end of Indira Gandhi Wildlife Sanctuary and National Park (IGWS&NP) in Tirupur District, Tamil Nadu, South India.

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Medical Services Recruitment Board

The Medical Services Recruitment Board (MRB) was constituted by the Government of Tamil Nadu in G.O. (Ms) No.1, Health and Family Welfare (C2) Department dated 02.01.2012 with the objective of making appointments to various categories of staff in the Health and Family Welfare Department by way of direct recruitment, in a speedy manner, keeping in view the nature, importance and essentiality of these posts.

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Meghamalai

Meghamalai,(Tamil:மேகமலை) popularly called Highwavys Mountains, is a mountain range situated in the Western Ghats in Theni district, Tamil Nadu.

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Monkey Falls

Monkey Falls are natural waterfalls located near the uphill ghat road Valparai on the Pollachi-Valparai road in the Anaimalai Hills range, in Coimbatore district.

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Nilgiri Wildlife and Environment Association

Nilgiri Wildlife and Environmental Association (NWEA) is a non-governmental organization registered in Tamil Nadu, India.

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Palani Hills

The Palani Hills (Tamil:பழநி மலை, Malayalam: പളനി മല) are a mountain range in the states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu in South India.

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Palani Hills Wildlife Sanctuary and National Park

The Palani Hills Wildlife Sanctuary and National Park is a proposed protected area in Dindigul District, Tamil Nadu State South India.

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Point Calimere

Kodiakkarai also called Point Calimere or Cape Calimere, (கோடியக்கரை Kodiakkarai), is a low headland on the Coromandel Coast, in the Nagapattinam district of the state of Tamil Nadu, India.

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Point Calimere Wildlife and Bird Sanctuary

Point Calimere Wildlife and Bird Sanctuary (PCWBS) is a protected area in Tamil Nadu, South India along the Palk Strait where it meets the Bay of Bengal at Point Calimere (Tamil: கோடியக்கரை Kodiakkarai) at the southeastern tip of Nagapattinam District.

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Pothigai

The Pothigai Hills, also known as the Shiva Jothi Parvath, Agasthiyar Mountain, Southern Kailash (Tamil: பொதிகை மலை, தென் கைலாயம், சிவஜோதி மலை) are in the southern part of the Western Ghats of South India.

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Protected areas of Tamil Nadu

The Protected areas of Tamil Nadu State in South India cover an area of, constituting 2.54% of the geographic area and 15% of the recorded forest area.

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Pulicat Lake

Pulicat Lake is the second largest brackish water lake or lagoon in India, after Chilika Lake.

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Pulicat Lake Bird Sanctuary

Pulicat Lake Bird Sanctuary is a famous 481 km² located in Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh and Protected area in Thiruvallur District of Tamil Nadu state in South India.

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Richard Henry Beddome

Colonel Richard Henry Beddome (11 May 1830 – 23 February 1911) was a British military officer and naturalist in India, who became chief conservator of the Madras Forest Department.

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Sathyamangalam Wildlife Sanctuary

Sathyamangalam Wildlife Sanctuary and Tiger Reserve is a protected area and tiger reserve along the Western Ghats in the Erode District of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

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Sigur Plateau

Sigur Plateau (Segur Plateau) is a plateau in the north and east of Nilgiri District in the Nilgiri Hills of Tamil Nadu, South India.

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Sirumalai

Sirumalai (சிறுமலை) is a region of situated from Dindigul and from Madurai,Tamil Nadu, India.

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Sivaganga district

Sivaganga District is an administrative district of Tamil Nadu state in Southern India.

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Srivilliputtur railway station

Srivilliputtur railway station is a railway station in the town of Srivilliputhur, Virudhunagar district in Tamil Nadu.

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Suchindram Theroor Birds Sanctuary

The Suchindram Theroor Birds Sanctuary is a protected area comprising the Suchindram Kulam wetlands at, and the Theroor Kulam wetlands at, both near Suchindram town in Kanyakumari District, Tamil Nadu state, South India.

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Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission

The Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission (TNPSC) is a department of the government of Tamil Nadu that is responsible for governing the recruitment of personnel into the state's public service.

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Tamil Nadu Uniformed Services Recruitment Board

The Tamil Nadu Uniformed Services Recruitment Board (TNUSRB) was constituted by the Government of Tamil Nadu in November 1991 vide G.O. Ms.

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Tiruvidaimarudur Conservation Reserve

Tiruppadaimarathur Conservation Reserve is an IUCN Category V protected bird nesting area in the compound of Siva temple in Tiruppadaimarathur village, Tirunelveli District, Tamil Nadu, South India.

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Tourism in Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu is a state in the south-eastern part of the Indian Peninsula.

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Vandalur Reserve Forest

Vandalur Reserve Forest is a protected area located in the suburb of Vandalur in the southwestern part of Chennai, about 30 km from the city centre.

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Wildlife of Tamil Nadu

There are more than 2000 species of fauna that can be found in Tamil Nadu.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_Nadu_Forest_Department

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