HABITATS: Tropical secondary scrub/dry deciduous forest
JURISDICTION: Karnataka Forest Department
IBA CRITERIA:
PROTECTION STATUS: Wildlife Sanctuary
OVERGRAZING: Persistant - Surrounding villages are entirely depending on this forest for their livestock grazing
ILLEGAL MINING: Persistant - Sand and boulders mining could not be stopped
ENCROACHMENT: Persistant
FIREWOOD/TIMBER COLLECTION: Persistant -Patrolling, Cattle preventing trenches, demarking the forest and agricultural fields has not improved the situation