Less than one percent of the ecoregion lies in reserves or protected areas but many are very small such as the sacred grove near Marakkanam, northwest of Pondicherry in Tamil Nadu, which preserves a section of evergreen closed canopy forest.
Less than one percent of the ecoregion lies in reserves or protected areas but many are very small such as the sacred grove near Marakkanam in Tamil Nadu closed canopy forest. This was northwest of Pondicherry. Tamil Nadu preserves a section of evergreen.