flora and fauna

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Nature and Wildlife Even if your visit to Sikkim promises a delightful experience of being close to nature with perpetual views of lush vegetation that accommodates an immense variety of life forms both animate and inanimate, a more dedicated approach towards your objective is bound to produce better results. Simple yet critical factors such as being in the right place at the right season and time is most important for the naturalist with an aspiration for close encounters with wildlife. For this, we can arrange for you the specialist guides, qualified and experienced botanists and naturalists. Sikkim’s location encompasses two major zoological regions, the Oriental and the Palaearctic, hence the prolific abundance of floral and faunal representation in a magnitude hard to evince for so tiny an area, but evidently true. The figures quoted below are from research undertaken by eminent naturalists past and present. Birds and butterflies number well above the 500 mark, and the variety in moths may run close to 2,000. The list for orchids stands at an impressive count of 450, and at least 36 species of rhododendron have been recorded in the higher climes.