Indira Gandhi Wildlife Sanctuary & National Park

 wildlife sanctuary, national park, tiger reserve (India)

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It has also been designated as Indira Gandhi / Anamalai Tiger Reserve in the year 2007 covering a total area of 1479.870 Sq Km.

Official Map of the Tiger Reserve is available here wiienvis.nic.in/writereaddata/userfiles/file/anamalai_t...

Indira Gandhi Wildlife Sanctuary and National Park (IGWLS&NP) is a protected area named after Prime Minister Indira Gandhi who visited the park on October 7, 1961. It is often called Topslip, a village in the northeast corner of the park which is the main visitor center. This name is derived from the local 19th century practice of sliding Teak timber logs down from the hills. It is located in the Anaimalai Hills of Pollachi, Valparai and Udumalpet taluks of Coimbatore District, Tamilnadu state, South India.
The 108 km² National Park is the core area of the 958 km² Indira Gandhi Wildlife Sanctuary, formerly called Anamalai Wildlife Sanctuary.

There are about 47000 species of plants in India, out of this about 17500 are flowering plants. The Indian Forest Act, 1927 helped to improve protection of the natural habitat.