Haliday Island Wildlife Sanctuary
South Twenty Four Parganas
Haliday Island
Mangrove forests
Spotted Deer, Wild Boar, Rhesus Macaque, Barking Deer;
Spot-billed Pelican, Cotton Teal, Herring Gull, Caspian Tern,
Grey Heron, Large Egret, Night Heron, Open-billed Stork,
White Ibis, Osprey, Pallas’s Fish Eagle, White-bellied Sea
Eagle, Grey-headed
Mangrove species, Keora (Sonneratia apetala), Kankra
(Bruguiera gymnorrhiza), Khalsi (Aegiceras corniculatum),
Gewa (Excoecaria agallocha) and Goran (Ceriops tagal),
Hantal Palm (Phoenix paludosa)(Casuarina, Karanja, etc.)
Nearest airport (135 km
away) is Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose
International Airport, Kolkata.
Nearest railway station at
Canning Railway Station(48km).
Connected by roads from
Gosaba(50km).
Forest guest house and local
hotels at Canning.
Divisional Forest Officer, 24 Parganas (South)
Division
12, Biplabi Kanailal Bhattacharjee St., Alipore,
Kolkata 700027
Phone: 033-2479-9032