Allola Indrakaran Reddy, Minister for Endowments, Law and Forest, Environment, Science and Technology, released today two ZSI publications 1. “Current status of Faunal Diversity of Telangana” and 2. Faunal diversity of Bhoj Wetland-A Ramsar in a function at Aranya Bhavan.organisedby Zoological Survey of India, Freshwater Biology Regional Centre, Hyderabad.
Zoological Survey of India, Freshwater Biology Regional Centre, Hyderabad has taken up projects to study the fauna of various wetlands under its jurisdiction. Recently, the centre also started to study the faunal diversity of various conservation areas.
First book on “Current status of Faunal Diversity of Telangana” authored by our respected Director and other scientists of Freshwater Biology Regional Centre, Hyderabad. Various faunal groups from the State of undivided Andhra Pradesh have been published from time to time during 1993 to 2008 in 8 faunal volumes.
After bifurcation, there are some publications on individual faunal groups in various scientific journals, but in scattered form. It is strongly believed that it will stimulate further exploration of the resources of the States.
This book emphasises on the fauna of Telangana, the state was earlier referred to as TrilingaDesa which is located in the centre of the Deccan plateau and the western part of Eastern Ghats. It has a widely different type of forest which covers around 26,969.48 sq.km of geographical area, which also includes12 protected areas of the state which include 7 wildlife sanctuaries and 3 national parks and 2 tiger reserves covering an area of 5692.48 sq. Km.
This state is also endowed with rich floral and faunal diversity. Current publication reports about 2450 faunal species from the state, belonging to 1440 genera accommodated under 456 families and 125 orders of 45 different faunal groups including vertebrates and invertebrates. Among these 1744 species are invertebrates and 706 are vertebrates Also 82 endemic fauna has been documented.
