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Nilgiri Tahr Day 2024 - October 07

October 11 , 2024 44 days 194 0
  • Tamil Nadu celebrated the first ‘Nilgiri Tahr Day’ in 2023.
  • October 7 was chosen by the Government as Nilgiri Tahr Day in honour of E.R.C. Davidar.
  • He was a wildlife conservationist who pioneered studies on the sole mountain ungulate of Southern India as early as in 1960s.
  • He took the first census of the Nilgiri tahr in the Nilgiris landscape during 1963 and reported that there were about 400 tahr in the Nilgiris.

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