National Academy of Direct Taxes has a sprawling campus of 67 acres large part of which is covered with green cover. Its richly endowed with variety of flora and fauna. Officer Trainees of various batches who underwent training have documented and surveyed the area to bring out the rich bio diversity thats present in the campus.
More recently, 85th Foundation Course officer trainees have planted a herbal garden infront of the Nalanda Hostel to increase the diversity of flora in the campus. Following the set trend 86th Foundation course Officer trainees did a survey of the flora in the campus and installed name plates with name of the tree species for promoting awareness about the diversity of flora in the campus. Both these projects were executed as a part of Shramdan.
Actively functioning hobby clubs of the Academy, Wildlife and Nature club members along with Officer trainees and faculty who are interested in wild life photography pursue birdwatching as a hobby in the silent mornings on the weekends. Following is the check list of some bird species that were noticed in the Campus.
- Jungle Babbler
- Black Drongo
- Racket Tailed Drongo
- Red vented bulbul
- Common Myna
- Asian Pied Starling
- Oriental Magpie Robin
- Treepie
- Orange headed Rock Thrush
- Paradise Flycatcher
- Indian Hornbill
- Oriental Honey Buzzard
- Baybacked Shrike
- Shikra
- Oriental White Eye
- Purple Sunbird
- Purple rumped Sunbird
- Golden Oriole
- Paddy field Pipit
- Red wattled lapwing
- White Breasted Kingfisher
- Copper Smith Barbet
- Koel
- Cuckoo
- White Wagtail
- Crested Bunting
- Hoopoe
- Scaly Breasted Munia
- Green Bee Eaters
- Rose Ringed Parakeet
- Spotted Dove
- Laughing Dove
- Eurasian Collared Dove
- Goldenback Woodpecker
Campus also is a host to wildlife which includes Peahens, Mongoose and Langoors co-existing peacefully.
