A variety of large wild animals such as gaur, Indian elephant, deer and Bengal tiger are found there.

[2] It is part of the Deccan Plateau and the vegetation is predominantly of the south Indian moist deciduous teak forests.

Scheduled tribes here include Paniyas, Kurubas, Adiyans, Kurichiyas, Ooralis and Kattunaikkans.

Relicts and edicts found in various parts of Wayanad speak of an important prehistoric era.

Historians are of the view that organised human life existed in these parts, at least ten centuries before Christ.

A monitoring programme of the Forest Department for 2017-18 has found that the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary (WWS), holds the largest tiger population in the State.

[citation needed] In 2012, a tiger was shot dead by the Kerala Forest Department on a coffee plantation on the fringes of the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary.

[4] Flora: Moist deciduous forest consists of maruthi, karimaruthi, rosewood, venteak, vengal, chadachi, mazhukanjiram, bamboos, more, while the semi-evergreen patches comprise veteria indica, lagerstroemia lanceolata, terminalia paniculata.

The dale, 'Lakkidi', nestled among the hills of Vythiri taluk has the highest average rainfall in Kerala.