FLORA AND FAUNA
FLORA
There are about 17500 taxa of flowering plants from India . The Indian Forest Act , 1927 helped the government to improve protection of the natural habitat . Many ecoregions , such as the sholaforests , also exhibit extremely high rates of endemism ; overall , 33% of Indian plant species are endemic . India's forest cover ranges from the tropical rainforest of the Andaman Islands , Western Ghats , and Northeast India to the coniferous forest of the Himalaya . Between these extremes lie the sal-dominated moist deciduous forest of eastern India ; teak -dominated dry deciduous forest of central and southern India ; and the babul - dominated thorn forest of the central Deccan and western Gangetic plain . Important Indian trees include the medicinal neem , widely used in rural Indian herbal remedies .
FAUNA
India is home to a several number of well-known large mammals , including the Asian elephant , Bengal and Indochinese tigers , Asiatic lion , Indian leopard , Indian sloth bear and Indian rhinoceros .In other words we can say that Fauna refers to animal life. Some of the well-known large mammals are : ungulates such as the rare wild Asian water buffalo , common domestic Asian water buffalo , gail , gaur , and some species of deer and antelope . Some members of the dog family , such as the Indian wolf , Bengal fox and golden jackal , and the wild dogs that are also widely distributed . However , the wild dogs , also known as the whistling hunter , is the most endangered top Indian carnivore , and the Himalayan wolf is now a critically endangered species endemic to India . It is also a home to the striped hyena , macaques , langur and mongoose species .
