Satmaliya Deer Park near Dapada, home to blackbuck, chinkara and the four-horned antelope

Background

Satmaliya Deer Park lies inside the Dadra and Nagar Haveli wildlife sanctuary.
It stands on the Khanvel-Silvassa road near Dapada, in the Dadra and Nagar Haveli district.
The park houses blackbuck, chital or spotted deer, sambhar deer, nilgai, chinkara and the four-horned antelope.
Birds recorded there include peacocks, the flame-back woodpecker and thrushes.
The park has mud trails, a waterhole and a watchtower known as a machan.
Visitors cross it in government-operated vans.