Peechi Vazhani Wildlife Sanctuary

Peechi-Vazhani Wildlife Sanctuary and forest lies within Thrissur district and Thalappilly taluk in Kerala. The sanctuary comes under the administrative jurisdiction of Peechi Wild life Division in Northern Wild life Circle at Palakkad.

Peechi-Vazhani Wildlife sanctuary

The Peechi-Vazhani Wildlife sanctuary is the second oldest sanctuary in Kerala having the code KER/141.The sanctuary comprises of parts of following mountains.

Paravattanimala
Machadmala
Bahranipacha mala

The total area of the sanctuary is 125 Sq.km. Till the dawn of 19 th century the forest of this sanctuary were under the possession of feudal chief called the Naduvachira who owned allegiance to the Raja of cochin.

Peechi-Vazhani Wildlife sanctuary

Consequent to the integration of Travancore and Cochin states in June 1949, the whole area of the forest of Cochin were constituted into Thrissur and Chalakudy Division with Head quarters of Thrissur and Chalakudy, respectively.

The Sanctuary was formed by combining portion of Peechi, Pattikkad and Machad Range of Trichur Forest Division vide GO (MS) No.871 dated 06-08-1958.The area of Peechi Range is again bifurcated in to Peechi and Vazhani Watersheds.

Peechi-Vazhani Wildlife sanctuary

Peechi-Vazhani Wildlife Sanctuary consists of 125 sq km and is contiguous with the forest areas of Nelliampathy and Palappilly reserves. On south, the sanctuary has a common boundary with Chimmony Wildlife Sanctuary. The terrain of the Sanctuary is undulating and the elevation varies from 45 m to 900 m. The dominant vegetation is moist deciduous and semi-evergreen species confined to the higher reaches. A total of 1000 species of angiosperms were recorded from the area out of which 50 species are orchids. A wide variety of medicinal plants are also reported.

The Sanctuary is located in the Trichur taluk of Trichur revenue district. The protected area lies in the sides of NH 47 at Kuthiran near Pattikkad. Head quarter is in Peechi which is 8 km away from the Peechi kavala in Pattikad town. A road namely Peechi Kavala to Peechi dam site is going to the sanctuary.