GUINDY NATIONAL PARK
- Guindy is India’s eighth-smallest national park and one of the very few national parks located inside a city. The park is an extension of the grounds surrounding Raj Bhavan, formerly known as the ‘Guindy Lodge’, the official residence of the governor of Tamil Nadu.
- It is India’s eighth-smallest national park and one of the very few national parks located in heart of Chennai’s metropolitan area.
- It was one of the last remnants of the tropical dry evergreen forests of the Coromandel Coast.
- It purifies the air but also acts as a habitat for a wide number of faunal species.
- Guindy Snake Park is next to Guindy National Park. It gained statutory recognition as a medium zoo from the Central Zoo Authority (CZA) in 1995.