India is home to a large variety of wildlife. It is a biodiversity hotspot with its various ecosystems ranging from the Himalayas in the north to the evergreen rain forests in the south, the desert sands of the west to the marshy mangroves of the east The Indian Peninsula is a continent in itself, whose geographical diversity has favored the flowering of a whole range of fauna with more than India's forest lands nurture about 500 species of mammals and 2000+ bird species.. While there is an encroachment into the homes of several species, each region has something special to offer. For example, "hangul" is limited to the valley of Kashmir in northern India, the rhinoceros is found in isolated places on the riverbank of Brahmaputra in the east, the black "langur" in the Western Ghats, and West India is home to the last Asian Lions.
