Uttara Kannada Udmudey Beach. The rocky beaches of Uttara Kannada District harbor the invertebrates belonging to the phyla Porifera, Coelenterata, Annelida, Arthropoda, Mollusca and Echinodermata. Attiveri bird sanctuary is home to 79 species of birds including migratory birds from 22 countries. Dandeli Wildlife Sanctuary is famous for the elusive black panther among other animals like gaur, tiger and leopards. The Kavala caves with their . High natural Shiva linga, Synthery rocks is a high rock flanked by natural caves and waterfalls, Vincholi rapids, Sykes point which offers a view of Kali river, and a suspension bridge are places worth visiting in this
Bacterial phyla Group A. Two species of the candidate phylum OP10, which is now called Armatimonadetes, where recently cultured: "Armatimonas rosea" isolated from the rhizoplane of a reed in a lake in Japan and "Chthonomonas calidirosea" from an isolate from geothermally heated soil at Hell's Gate, Tikitere, New Zealand. One species, "Caldisericum exile", of the candidate phylum OP5 was cultured, leading to it being named Caldiserica. The candidate phylum VadinBE97 is now known as Lentisphaerae after "Lentisphaera araneosa" and "Victivallis vadensis" were cultured. More recently several candidate phyla have been given provisional names despite the fact that they have no cultured representatives: