Explanation:

Point Calimere Wildlife Sanctuary in Vedaranyam Range has been closed for a week in view of water-logging caused by a heavy spell of rainfall.

It is located in Nagapattinam district of Tamil Nadu spreads across an area of 30 sq.km and comprises sandy coastal, saline swamps and thorn scrub forests around the backwater.

It is a protected area and a Ramsar site which harbors the single-largest stretch of the unique dry- evergreen forest in the country besides open grasslands and tidal mudflats is of interest to tourists. Around 100 species of birds including the Greater Flamingo, Painted Stork, Little Sting, Sea Gull and Brown-headed gull are winter migrants here.

Blackbuck (Antilope Cervicapra) is the flagship species of the sanctuary.