{"id":11110,"date":"2023-05-20T02:21:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T20:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=11110"},"modified":"2025-03-30T00:36:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T19:06:14","slug":"about-koundinya-wildlife-sanctuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/about-koundinya-wildlife-sanctuary\/","title":{"rendered":"About Koundinya Wildlife Sanctuary"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Koundinya Wildlife Sanctuary:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is located in Palamner &#8211; Kuppam forest ranges of <strong>Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is the <strong>only sanctuary<\/strong> in the whole state <strong>housing Asian elephants.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>This Sanctuary comes <strong>under Project elephant <\/strong>&#8211; a Country wide Elephant Conservation Project taken up by Government of India.<\/li>\n<li><strong>River Kaigal and River Kaundinya <\/strong>flow through this sanctuary and is characterized by <strong>high hills, deep valleys<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/forests.ap.gov.in\/kaundinya.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>Flora<\/strong><\/a><strong>:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Forest type:<\/strong> <strong>Southern tropical dry deciduous forest<\/strong>, with patches of thorn, scrub and grassy plains.<\/li>\n<li>Plants like Albizzia amara, Ficus glomerata, Zizyphus xylocarpus, Gymnosporia Montana, etc; make this a <strong>green panoramic place<\/strong> with a breathtaking floral diversity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/forests.ap.gov.in\/kaundinya.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>Fauna<\/strong><\/a><strong>:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Insects like Painted grasshopper, Plain tiger butterfly, Common grass yellow butterfly etc.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Reptiles<\/strong> like Common cobra, Rat snake, Indian rock python, Forest calotes, Skinks, etc.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Birds<\/strong> like Partidges, quails, storks, Cotton teal, etc; make this Sanctuary their domicile.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mammals<\/strong> like <strong>Indian Elephant<\/strong>, Panther, Sloth bear, Wild boar, <strong>Chowsingha, Nilgai,<\/strong> <strong>Hyena, Jackal<\/strong>, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) Do Asian elephants live in India?<\/h3>\n<p>More than 50% are in India, where their range is largest. Populations live in just a few pockets of land in Sri Lanka. In Sumatra, elephants have lost 70% of their native habitat. Asian elephants live in tight-knit groups of about six or seven related females that work together to raise their young.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/andhra-pradesh\/jumbo-census-in-seshachalam-hills-koundinya-wildlife-sanctuary-hints-at-sizeable-presence\/article66870607.ece\/amp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Rough estimates put the number of elephants at around 60 in Railway Kodur, Rajampeta, Sanipaya, and Balapalle ranges.<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>River Kaigal and River Kaundinya flow through this sanctuary and is characterized by high hills, deep valleys<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11111,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11110","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\/11110","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=11110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}