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Mahendragiri Biosphere Reserve
April 2 , 2021
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- Odisha government has proposed a second biosphere reserve in the southern part of that state at Mahendragiri.
- Similipal Biosphere Reserve is Odisha’s first such reserve.
- That was notified in 1996.
- The area of the proposed Mahendragiri Biosphere Reserve is spread over Gajapati and Ganjam districts in the Eastern Ghats.
- Mahendragiri hill ecosystem acts as a transitional zone between the flora and fauna of southern India and the Himalayas.
- Mahendragiri is inhabited by the Soura people, a particularly vulnerable tribal group as well as the Kandha tribe.
- According to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, Twenty-nine of the 41 species of threatened medicinal plants found in Odisha are found in the biosphere reserve area.
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