ERAVIKULAM NATIONAL PARK

   The tourist season, around 2000 visitors reach in the Eravikulam National Park every day. This had crossed the 5000 mark during the last flowering season of Neelakurinjis, which was an all-time record.
   Nearly 90 percent of the tourists to Munnar  mark it a point to visit the park" The park consists mostly of high-altitude grasslands that are interspersed with shola forests. It is better known to the outer world as the home of the outer world as the home of the Nilgiri tahr." The park holds the largest viable population of the endangered species of Nilgiri tahr. Apart from the tahr, the park is the abode of other little known fauna such as Nilgiri marten,ruddy mongoose,small clawed otter, dusky striped squirrel"

Prof. John Kurakar