HYDERABAD ,MAHAVIR HARINA VANASTHALI NATIONAL PARK

• The park was named after Mahavir, a Jain saint, in commemoration of his 2500th birth anniversary in the year 1975. 

 

• Once the Nizam's (former Hyderabadi rulers) hunting grounds, it is now home to the beautiful black bucks with their spiral horns along with several species of birds. 

                         

• The deer park maintained by the Forest Department, has an undulating terrain, of 189 hectares dominated by acacia trees and grasslands. 

                                             

• The park looks picturesque in the monsoon with the golden and white flowers of these trees on the lush green carpet of grass. Besides Acacias, neem, Bauhinias, Buteas ( Flame of the forest) and a variety of thorny scrub species are found in this dry scrub forest.