Biodiversity Heritage Site at Maharashtra
April 6 , 2021
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- The Maharashtra government has declared an area at Amboli in Western ghats in Sindhudurg district, as a biodiversity heritage site.
- Rare freshwater fish species was discovered here.
- Tejas Thackeray and his team had discovered the new freshwater fish species named Schistura Hiranyakeshi.
- Tejas Thackeray is the son of Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray.
- The fishes were found near Amboli in Sawantwadi tehsil of Sindhudurg district.
- Schistura is a small and colourful fish that lives in water and streams in an abundance of oxygen.
- Earlier, the State government had declared the
- Glory of Allapalli in Gadchiroli district,
- LandorKhori Park in Jalgaon,
- GaneshKhind in Pune,
- Myristica swamp vegetation in Sindhudurg district as biodiversity heritage sites.
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