Mention the salient features of Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve.

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Followings are the salient features of Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve:
(i)The Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve possesses different habitat types, unspoilt areas of natural vegetation types with several dry scrubs, dry and moist deciduous, semievergreen and wet evergreen forests, evergreen sholas, grasslands and swamps.
(ii)It includes the largest known population of two endangered animal species, namely the Nilgiri Tahr and the Lion-tailed macaque.
(iii)The largest south Indian population of elephant, tiger, gaur, sambar and chital as well as a good number of endemic and endangered plants are also found in this reserve.
(iv)The habitat of a number of tribal groups remarkable for their traditional modes of harmonious use of the environment are also found here.
(v)The topography of the NBR is extremely varied, ranging from an altitude of 250 m to 2,650 m. About 80 per cent of the flowering plants reported from the Western Ghats occur in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve.

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