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Mathikettan Shola National Park<\/p>\n <\/li>\n
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Poopara village, Udumbanchola taluk in Idukki District<\/p>\n <\/li>\n
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathikettan_Shola_National_Park<\/a><\/p>\n <\/li>\n \n Notes \n <\/h5>\n This tract, comprising part of the Cardamom Hill Reserve (CHR), had been notified as a Reserve Forest by the Travancore Government in 1897. Part of the land, prior to becoming a national park, had been leased out for the production of Cardamom. It was declared a National Park on Nov 21, 2003 to protect its ecological, faunal, floral and geographical wealth and its environment.<\/br> <\/br> Mathikettan was in the centre of a controversy in the year 2002 following media exposes on large-scale takeover of the pristine shola forests in the area by certain land sharks.<\/br> <\/br> Following the controversy over the encroachments, the Kerala State Government had issued a notification giving total control of the Mathikettan shola to the Forest Department.<\/p>\n <\/li>\n <\/ul>\n \n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n \n \n No nearby posts found\n\n <\/div>\n \n \n \n \n \n\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n \n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
This tract, comprising part of the Cardamom Hill Reserve (CHR), had been notified as a Reserve Forest by the Travancore Government in 1897. Part of the land, prior to becoming a national park, had been leased out for the production of Cardamom. It was declared a National Park on Nov 21, 2003 to protect its ecological, faunal, floral and geographical wealth and its environment.<\/br> <\/br> Mathikettan was in the centre of a controversy in the year 2002 following media exposes on large-scale takeover of the pristine shola forests in the area by certain land sharks.<\/br> <\/br> Following the controversy over the encroachments, the Kerala State Government had issued a notification giving total control of the Mathikettan shola to the Forest Department.<\/p>\n <\/li>\n <\/ul>\n \n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n