HESARAGHATTA RESOURCE CENTRE & FACT CHECKER
The Hesaraghatta lakebed area and grasslands in the surrounding catchment area in the north-west of Bangalore are an important reservoir of biodiversity that includes scheduled 1 species like the Lesser Florican and the Indian Leopard. Some of the rare and significant species found in the proposed Reserve area include:
- The Indian Leopard (Panthera pardus) has been intermittently spotted on the grasslands. Recently a forest department project camera-trapped a leopard in the grasslands. The leopard