Wildlife of Kerala
Kera la's most significantly biodiverse tracts of wilderness lie in the evergreen forests of its easternmost districts, coastal Kerala mostly lies under cultivation and is home to comparatively little wildlife. Despite this, Kerala contains 9,400 km2 of natural forests. Out of the approximately 7,500 km2 of non-plantation forest cover, there are wild regions of tropical wet evergreen and semi-evergreen forests, tropical moist and dry deciduous forests and montane subtropical and shola forests. Such forests togethe r cover 24% of Kerala's landmass. Dense, mysterious, magical - rainforests are the earth's oldest living ecosystems that produce about a third of the planet's oxygen. A dazzling array of animals and plants - amphibians, birds, fish, mammals, reptiles, flowering plants and butterflies inhabit the rainforest of Kerala . A discreet hill station located in north western Kerala, Wayanad is set along the higher slopes of the southern fringe of the Decca