{"id":10487,"date":"2023-05-09T03:06:09","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T21:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=10487"},"modified":"2025-03-29T20:35:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T15:05:28","slug":"katepurna-wildlife-sanctuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/katepurna-wildlife-sanctuary\/","title":{"rendered":"Katepurna Wildlife Sanctuary"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Katepurna Wildlife Sanctuary:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Location<\/strong>: It is located in <strong>Akola District of Maharashtra<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>This Sanctuary area is the <strong>catchment of Katepurna Reservoir<\/strong>, and it forms an <strong>aquatic habitat <\/strong>for many floral and faunal species.<\/li>\n<li>The sanctuary <strong>derives its name from the Katepurna River<\/strong>, which flows south to Northward almost through the central part of the sanctuary.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Landscape<\/strong>: It is <strong>undulating<\/strong> and offers an interesting <strong>contrast between the plateau and the plains.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Vegetation<\/strong>: <strong>Southern tropical dry deciduous forest<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Flora<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>The main species are <strong>Ain, Dhawada, Kalamb, Salai<\/strong>, Haldu, Medshing, Tendu etc.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Trees of Vad, Umber, Arjun, and Kalamb<\/strong> are found in moist areas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fauna<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>It is <strong>renowned for its four-horned antelope and barking deer<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Other animals that you can see at the sanctuary include <strong>black buck, leopard, wolf, wild boar, hyena<\/strong>, hare, nilgai, jungle cat and monkey.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is a Wildlife Sanctuary?<\/h3>\n<p>A Wildlife Sanctuary can be termed as a large geographical piece of land, usually forested, where animals are kept in their natural habitats. The primary purpose of designating areas as a Wildlife Sanctuary is to provide a shelter or refuge to the animals so that they can live and thrive in their natural homes. A Wildlife Sanctuary also insulates animals from being killed by poachers or from other more fierce animals. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lokmattimes.com\/maharashtra\/akola-nature-enthusiasts-spot-309-animals-during-katepurna-sanctuary-initiative\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Akola: Nature enthusiasts spot 309 animals during Katepurna Sanctuary initiative<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katepurna Wildlife Sanctuary  is located in Akola District of Maharashtra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10488,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10487","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}