Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Western Ghats' has mentioned 'Forest' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
|---|---|
| The word Ghat is explained by numerous Dravidian etymons such as the Tamil and Telugu gattu (hill and hill forest), Kannada gaati and ghatta (mountain range), Tulu gatta (hill or hillside), and ghattam in Malayalam (mountainous way, riverside and hairpin bends). | WIKI |
| The Western Ghats are home to four tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregions xe2x80x93 the North Western Ghats moist deciduous forests, North Western Ghats montane rain forests, South Western Ghats moist deciduous forests, and South Western Ghats montane rain forests. | WIKI |
| The forest in the Western Ghats has been severely fragmented due to human activities, especially clear-felling for tea, coffee, and teak plantations[25] from 1860 to 1950. | WIKI |
| The Government of India has established many protected areas including 2 biosphere reserves, 13 national parks to restrict human access, several wildlife sanctuaries to protect specific endangered species and many reserve forests, which are all managed by the forest departments of their respective state to preserve some of the ecoregions still undeveloped. | WIKI |
| [27] Silent Valley in Kerala is among the last tracts of virgin tropical evergreen forest in India. | WIKI |
| The largest population of tigers is in the Western Ghats, where there are seven populations with an estimated population size of 1200 individuals occupying 21,435xc2xa0km2 (8,276xc2xa0sqxc2xa0mi) of forest in three major landscape units spread across Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala. | WIKI |
| The dominant forest type here is Tropical rainforest. | WIKI |
| The serial approach is justified in principle from a biodiversity perspective because all 39 components belong to the same biogeographic province, and remain as isolated remnants of previous contiguous forest. | UNESCO |
| All components are owned by the State and are subject to stringent protection under laws including the Wildlife (Protection) Act of 1972, the Indian Forest Act of 1927, and the Forest Conservation Act (1980). | UNESCO |
| The Forest Conservation Act (1980) provides the regulatory framework to protect them from infrastructure development. | UNESCO |
| The livelihood concerns of the local communities are regulated by the Forest Rights Acts, 2006 and their participation in governance is ensured through Village Ecodevelopment Committees (VECs). | UNESCO |