A special fund to save Purple Frog, a ‘living fossil’, in the Western Ghats
The HinduWhen the State government announced the institution of the Tamil Nadu Endangered Species Conservation Fund in its 2024 Budget, a rare frog having a bloated body, pointed snout and stout limbs grabbed space in the posters of the special fund. The Purple Frog, two species of which are found in unique habitats in Tamil Nadu, are among the many lesser known and endangered species to be covered under the fund. The Anamalai hills near Coimbatore is one of the prime habitats of the Purple Frog in Tamil Nadu, while they occur in higher numbers in the Western Ghat mountains in Kerala. Apart from the Purple Frog, the fund, with a corpus of ₹50 crore, will cover rare, endangered, threatened, and lesser-known species like pangolin, otter, Nilgiri marten, slender loris, lion-tailed macaque, and dugong.
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