Yedshi Ramling Ghat Wildlife Sanctuary

Yedshi Ramling Ghat Wildlife Sanctuary covers 2,237.5 hectares of the Balaghat range in Osmanabad (Dharashiv) district, declared in 1997 to protect its plants, animals and birds. It lies about 20 km from Osmanabad, and both the Latur–Barshi highway and the Barsi Light Railway of 1907 cross it. Yedshi, 5 km away, has the railhead and the sanctuary headquarters. Its height above sea level has earned it the name of a hill station.

The hilly woodland is dry deciduous and thorn forest with patches of scrub, including sandalwood, teak, neem, khair, palas and dhawda. Leopard, sloth bear, wolf, blackbuck, barking deer and porcupine live here, and over 100 bird species have been recorded. The main draw is the Ramling temple, a well-known Shiva shrine; there is a railway rest house on Durgadevi hilltop nearby and a forest rest house at Yedshi. Lantana, fires, encroachment and summer water shortages threaten the habitat.