India Facts - Nature

Mountains

• Himalaya 2400 km long between 240 and 320 km wide
  Kanchenjunga (8534 m)
• Aravalli Ranges (Rajasthan)
  Mount Abu (1219 m)
• Eastern Ghats (Height ca 610m)
• Western Ghats (Height 915- 1220m, some Mountains upto 2440m)

Rivers (Total Lenghth)

• Ganges 2.510 km 
• Brahmaputra 2.900 km

Forests

• 770.100 km² about 23,4% of total area

Deserts

• 200.000 km² about 1/3 cultivable

Flora

• 45.000 different Species
• 15.000 Vascula Flora about 35% endemic

National Parks and Wildlife Sanctuaries

• 80 Nationalparks
• 441 Wildlife Sanctuaries
• about 23 Tigerreserves (Project Tiger)
• c. 40.000 Tigerpopulation end of 19. Century
• c. 2.000 in the 70's
• c. 6.000 today
• consists 60 % of the worldwide tigerpopulation

Fauna

• 65.000 different Species:
  Fishes: 2.500
  Amphibians: 150
  Reptiles: 350
  Birds: 2.100
  Mammals: 350
• Special: Tiger, Asian Lion, Elephant, Four horn antilope (Choushinha), One horn Rhinoceros, three different Leopard (snow Leopard), black an brown Bear, Yak, Tapir, Moschusdeer, Sibirischer Kranich, Indian Wild ass, Indian Bison (Gaur), Indian Buffalol (Nigail), largest Red wild population of the world (8 different Species), Crocodiles, among it the Gangesgharial, found only in India