Context

• Manjeera Wildlife Sanctuary in going to be 1st Ramsar Sites of Telangana.

About the Manjeera Wildlife Sanctuary

• A wildlife sanctuary and a reservoir located in the Medak district of Telangana.
• Originally a crocodile sanctuary, today more than 70 species of birds are spotted here, and is home to the vulnerable species of mugger crocodile.
• Follows the course of river Manjeera, a tributary of Godavari, and abuts the Manjeera reservoir.
• A man-made reservoir that provides water for irrigation and also drinking water for the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad.
• Extensive marshy fringes, which act as nesting sites for waterbirds.
• Dry Savannah type of vegetation is found in the sanctuary.
• The reservoir supports both submergent and emergent types of vegetation.
• Being a freshwater ecosystem, the sanctuary is home to many plant species like Typha, Babool, Prosopis, Ipomoea and Acacia Ipomea, Vallisneria, Eichhornia, and Reeds, among others.
• On the banks of the river, in a village called Kalabgur, there is a temple that is said to have been constructed some 800 years ago during the Kakatiya period.

Source: TOI

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