Forest floor: AGUMBE Nature Camp 2011

AGUMBE NATURE CAMP- 2011...( 21st camp of BVS Nature Club )

Hi ! Nature Lovers , here a good news for you .. As we were arranging a camp of 7 – 8 days in one of the forest of Karnataka or Maharashtra , for this year we are going to AGUMBE .. a ever green rain forest .

Agumbe (Kannada: ಆಗುಂಬೆ) is a village located in the Shimoga district in the state of Karnataka, India. Lying in the Thirthahalli taluk and the Malnad region, Agumbe is among the places in India that receive very heavy rainfall earning it the sobriquet, "Cherrapunji of the South".^[1] It is also the home of the Agumbe Rainforest Research Station, the only permanent rainforest research station in India. The renowned herpetologist, Romulus Whitaker called Agumbe the capital of King Cobra. An area near Agumbe has been converted into a protected area for Medicinal Plants to help in their conservation.

The main achievement of this camp to study the birds , mamals , reptiles . amphibians and trees of that area as well as to create interest of wild life in your own .

The camp will be hold during

30 April - 7 May . at Agumbe rain forest ,

Attractions - Biodiversity

Many new species of flora and fauna are found in this region. Agumbe lends its name to the following species which were discovered here:

Selenops agumbensis: A spider of genus Selenops
Tarenna agumbensis: A shrub
Drosophila agumbensis: A species of small fly
Irenopsis agumbensis: A fungus
Hygroaster agumbensis: A fungus
Dactylaria agumbensis: A fungus

Other species discovered around Agumbe include:

Caudalejeunea pluriplicata: A liverwort plant.
Notothylas dissecta: A plant of type Hornwort earlier found only in Central America, was discovered in Asia for the first time in Agumbe.

Cyclotoma alleni:A beetle discovered in Agumbe.