Grass Hills National Park is a protected area in the Western Ghats,

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, and a part of the

Anamalai Tiger Reserve Anaimalai Tiger Reserve, earlier known as Indira Gandhi Wildlife Sanctuary and National Park and as Anaimalai Wildlife Sanctuary, is a protected area in the Anaimalai Hills of Pollachi and Valparai taluks of Coimbatore District and Udumalaipetta ...

, forming its boundary with

Eravikulam National Park Eravikulam National Park is a 97 km2 national park located along the Western Ghats in the Idukki and Ernakulam districts of Kerala in India. Situated between 10º05'N and 10º20' north, and 77º0' and 77º10' east, (Semap) it is the fi ...

in neighbouring Kerala state. It is not an actual National Park. It spreads over 65,000 hectares. The landscape is a combination of peaks and high plateaus above MSL composed of montane

shola Sholas are the local name for patches of stunted tropical montane forest found in valleys amid rolling grassland in the higher montane regions of South India, largely in Kerala, Karnataka and Tamilnadu. These patches of shola forest are found ...

-grassland ecosystem that is unique to the higher ranges of the Western Ghats of Kerala and Tamil Nadu. The important peaks are, Attuparai kurukku top(6662 ft), Oosi malai Theri, kazhuku chutti malai, silve medu. It is primarily a shola grassland eco system.

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