Bhimashankar Wildlife Sanctuary was created in the Ambegaon and Khed talukas of Pune District, in the Western Indian state of Maharashtra in order mainly
- to protect the habitat of the Indian Giant Squirrel, its area is 131 km2 (51 sq mi) and is a part of the Western Ghats (Sahyadri Ranges).
- This sanctuary was created in 1984.
- The sanctuary includes 9 tribal villages. The areas bio-diversity has been retained as it was preserved as a cluster of sacred groves for generations.[2] These sacred groves act as gene pools of this area, from where seeds were dispersed.
- In Ahupe - a tribal (Mahadev Koli) village's sacred grove in the sanctuary, in 1984, a climber Khombhal - Xantolis tomentosa was found to be 800 - 1000 years old.[3]
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