Central Deccan Plateau Dry Deciduous Forests Some of the larger species mentioned here are rare, as is the threatened Indian giant squirrel ("Ratufa indica"). The 300 species of birds include the globally threatened Jerdon's courser ("Rhinoptilus bitorquatus"), which was rediscovered in 1986 having been thought extinct for nearly a hundred years. About 80 percent of the natural habitat in the ecoregion has been lost. Several blocks of habitat larger than 5,000 km remain. Fifteen protected areas cover almost 3% of the ecoregion's area, with Nagarjunsagar-Srisailam Tiger Reserve as the largest. Central Deccan Plateau Dry Deciduous Forests The Central Deccan Plateau dry deciduous forests southern India, containing
Hemimont Plateau mapping in 1974. Hemimont Plateau Hemimont Plateau (, ‘Plato Hemimont’ \pla-'to 'he-mi-mont\) is the ice-covered plateau of elevation about 1600 m in southern Graham Land, Antarctica situated midway between Loubet Coast and Fallières Coast on the west, and Bowman Coast on the east, and extending 100 km from the heads of Finsterwalder Glacier and Demorest Glacier on the north to Neny Glacier on the south. Its higher southern part rises to over 1700 m and features McLeod Hill, Beacon Hill and Armadillo Hill. The plateau is named after the Roman province of Hemimont in Southeastern Bulgaria. Hemimont Plateau is centred