{"id":12982,"date":"2023-07-11T02:43:21","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T21:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=12982"},"modified":"2025-04-01T23:21:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T17:51:34","slug":"mukurthi-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/mukurthi-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Mukurthi National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Mukurthi National Park:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Location<\/strong>:\u00a0\n<ul>\n<li>It lies in the <strong>western corner of Nilgiris Plateau in<\/strong> the state of <strong>Tamil Nadu.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The park is a <strong>part of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve<\/strong>. It is s<strong>andwiched between<\/strong> the <strong>Mudumalai National Park<\/strong> and the <strong>Silent Valley National Park<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The area was declared as a wildlife sanctuary in 1982 and <strong>upgraded to a National Park in 1990.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It was established with the <strong>prime motive of conserving its keystone species \u2013 the Nilgiri Tahr.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is a <strong>UNESCO World Heritage Site<\/strong> and was <strong>formerly known as Nilgiri Tahr National Park.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is also <strong>home to Mukurthi Peak (2,554m<\/strong>), the fourth highest peak in the Nilgiri Hills.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rivers<\/strong>: <strong>Pykara and Kundah rivers<\/strong> flow through the park along with several perennial streams that originate in the park and drain into the Bhavani Puzha.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vegetation<\/strong>:\u00a0\n<ul>\n<li>The majority of the landscape in the reserve is <strong>covered with shrubs and mountainous grasslands.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The area<\/strong> in the National Park which are <strong>at an elevation <\/strong>and experience high rainfall <strong>are covered with sholas and lush green tropical grasslands.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Flora<\/strong>:\u00a0\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Along sholas, shrubs like Gaultheria fragrantissima, Helichrysum <\/strong>and Berberis tinctoria are found.<\/li>\n<li>Other plants which can be seen here are <strong>Rhododendrons, Cinnamon, Mahonia, Satyrium<\/strong>, Raspberries etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fauna<\/strong>:The park houses some of the <strong>endangered wild species like Nilgiri tahr, Indian elephants, Nilgiri Langur<\/strong>, Bengal tiger and bonnet macaque.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What are Keystone species?<\/h3>\n<p>A keystone species\u2014which can be any organism, from animals and plants to bacteria and fungi\u2014is the glue that holds a habitat together. It may not be the largest or most plentiful species in an ecological community, but if a keystone is removed, it sets off a chain of events that turns the structure and biodiversity of its habitat into something very different.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/cities\/Coimbatore\/tn-forest-department-steps-up-vigil-around-mukurthi-national-park-in-nilgiris-to-curb-poaching\/article67063653.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>T.N. Forest Department steps up vigil around Mukurthi National Park in Nilgiris to curb poaching<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mukurthi National Park lies in the western corner of Nilgiris Plateau in the state of Tamil Nadu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12983,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12982","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\/12982","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=12982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}