IJFANS International Journal of Food and Nutritional Sciences

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The Survey of Dominant and Traditional Medicinal Plants Used By Gond Tribe of Nagzira at Bhandara District, Maharashtra.

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K. R. Gopal

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The ethnomedical survey was undertaken to collect information for dominant plant species and for traditional uses of the medicinal in Nagzira village of Bhandara and Gondia district of Maharashtra. Our country is called as the botanical garden of the world, owing to wealth of herbal medicines. Nagzira is located between Bhandara and Gondia district of Maharashtra. Closest National Highway is NH -53 . Nagzira it is wildlife sanctuary is located in the arms of nature and adorned with a picturesque landscape, luxuriant vegetation and serves as a living outdoor. The name of Nagzira is a temple of ‘Naag’ (Snake) which is exactly in the middle of nagzira and a temple of Mahadev. There was also a village inside the forest called as ‘Nangthana’ that adds up to the name of the forest. Nagzira got its name from this temple and ‘zira’ (zara) in Marathi means a perennial source of water that comes out from a hill in pongezara, Nagzira. In wildlife sanctuary of Nagzira 34 species of mammals, 166 species of birds, 36 species of reptiles and four species of amphibians. The invertebrate fauna includes a number of butterfly and other insect species. Large wild mammals found here include the tiger, leopard, Indian gaur, sambar, nilgai, chital, wild boar, sloth bear, barking deer, mouse deer and wild dog. There is also an elephant named Rupa. Nearly 30,000 tourists visit this sanctuary annually

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