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A Western Ghats national park in Karnataka's Uttara Kannada district which, with Dandeli Wildlife Sanctuary, forms the Kali Tiger Reserve.
Anshi National Park is a protected area in the Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka, lying in the Western Ghats. Spread over roughly 500 square kilometres of evergreen and semi-evergreen forest, it forms one half of the Kali Tiger Reserve, the other being the adjoining Dandeli Wildlife Sanctuary of about 400 square kilometres. The combined reserve was known as the Dandeli-Anshi Tiger Reserve until December 2015, when it was renamed the Kali Tiger Reserve after the Kali river that flows through it and sustains the district. The renaming was intended both to give the reserve a single identity and to draw public attention to the river's importance to the surrounding ecosystem.
Type: PhenomenonLocation — Uttara Kannada district, Karnataka, in the Western Ghats
Area — approximately 500 square kilometres
Part of Kali Tiger Reserve — together with the adjoining Dandeli Wildlife Sanctuary of about 400 square kilometres
Renaming — the Dandeli-Anshi Tiger Reserve was renamed the Kali Tiger Reserve in December 2015
Kali river — flows through the reserve and gives it its present name
Vegetation — moist evergreen and semi-evergreen forest typical of the Western Ghats, with bamboo and teak
Fauna — tiger, black panther, leopard, elephant, gaur, sloth bear, and a rich bird population including hornbills
Frequency: Appears in UPSC Prelims protected-area questions and in state-specific general awareness papers
Karnataka
Uttara Kannada
500 sq km
Dandeli Wildlife Sanctuary, about 400 sq km
Kali Tiger Reserve
December 2015, from Dandeli-Anshi Tiger Reserve
Kali
Western Ghats
The Kali Tiger Reserve occupies a stretch of the Western Ghats that matters more for connectivity than for tiger numbers alone. It sits within the corridor linking the protected areas of the northern Western Ghats in Karnataka to those in Goa and Maharashtra, and it is that continuity which allows large mammals such as tigers and elephants to move between populations and avoid genetic isolation. The reserve is also one of the few landscapes in India where the melanistic leopard, popularly called the black panther, is regularly recorded, a consequence of the dense evergreen canopy in which darker coats are advantageous. The renaming to Kali in 2015 was more than cosmetic: by naming the reserve after the river rather than after two towns, the state linked the protected area explicitly to the watershed it protects, which is the argument for conserving it in a district where hydropower and downstream agriculture both depend on that river.
Anshi National Park: Uttara Kannada district, Karnataka, in the Western Ghats
Area about 500 sq km; adjoining Dandeli Wildlife Sanctuary about 400 sq km
Together they form the Kali Tiger Reserve
Renamed from Dandeli-Anshi Tiger Reserve to Kali Tiger Reserve in December 2015
Named after the Kali river, the lifeline of Uttara Kannada
Known for the black panther, a melanistic leopard
Evergreen and semi-evergreen Western Ghats forest
The Kali Tiger Reserve, formed by Anshi National Park together with the adjoining Dandeli Wildlife Sanctuary in Karnataka.
It was renamed from Dandeli-Anshi Tiger Reserve to Kali Tiger Reserve in December 2015, after the Kali river, both to give the reserve a single identity and to highlight the river's importance to the region.
In the Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka, within the Western Ghats.
It is a melanistic leopard — a leopard with an excess of dark pigment — rather than a separate species. The dense evergreen canopy of this landscape favours darker coats.
It combines Anshi National Park of about 500 square kilometres with Dandeli Wildlife Sanctuary of about 400 square kilometres.