Kanyakumari Wildlife Sanctuary is a 402.4 km2 (155.4 sq mi) protected area in Kanyakumari district, Tamil Nadu, South India declared in February 2008.
Several new species of plants, amphibians and insects discovered here are found nowhere else, making it an endemic region.
[2] The area is a wildlife corridor with high biodiversity, and in addition to tigers, is home to the threatened species: Indian bison, elephant, Indian rock python, lion-tailed macaque, mouse deer, Nilgiri tahr and sambar deer.
The State government got a stay order and has continued turning forests into rubber plantations by leasing the land to third party contractors and landlords.
[4] Another incident was the uprooting of 20,000 forest trees in the guise of clearing the damage caused due to Cyclone Ockhi.