{"id":131807,"date":"2026-11-03T14:46:45","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T09:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=131807"},"modified":"2026-11-03T15:00:35","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T09:30:35","slug":"radhanagari-wildlife-sanctuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/radhanagari-wildlife-sanctuary\/","title":{"rendered":"Radhanagari Wildlife Sanctuary Records First Documented Tiger Sighting by Tourists"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Radhanagari Wildlife Sanctuary Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tourists visiting Maharashtra\u2019s Radhanagari-Dajipur Wildlife Sanctuary recently spotted a male Bengal tiger, marking the first officially documented tiger sighting captured on camera by tourists in the sanctuary.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Radhanagari Wildlife Sanctuary<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is located in <\/span><b>Maharashtra\u2019s <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kolhapur district.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nestled in the<\/span><b> southern end<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the <\/span><b>Sahyadri hills<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the<\/span><b><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/western-ghats\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Western Ghats<\/a>, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">it was the <\/span><b>former hunting ground<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the <\/span><b>Maharaja of Kolhapur.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was declared as a wildlife sanctuary in 1958 and is the<\/span><b> first declared wildlife sanctuary in Maharashtra.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was specially created for the <\/span><b>conservation of the Indian bison<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Gaur).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The sanctuary is <\/span><b>also called<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2018<\/span><b>Dajipur Wildlife Sanctuary\u2019<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and \u2018Bison<\/span><b> Sanctuary\u2019.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It spans over 350 sq. km. of dense forest, grasslands, and hilly terrain.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>rivers <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that flow across the sanctuary are <\/span><b>Bhogavati, Kallamma, Dudhganga, Dirba,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>Tulshi<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which then<\/span><b> join the Krishna River.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At its heart lies the scenic <\/span><b>Radhanagari Dam on the Bhogawati River,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which plays a vital role in maintaining the forest ecosystem.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Flora<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It contains <\/span><b>tropical evergreen forests <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">typical of the northern Western Ghats.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The main flora found here are Ain, Anjani, Amba, Awala, Bhoma, Bibba, Chandala, Gela, Hirda, Jambul, Jambha, Kinjal, Kumbha, Katak, Nana, Pisa, Umbar, etc.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Fauna:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>The Indian Bison<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is the <\/span><b>flagship species<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the area.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Besides, one can also spot <\/span><b>leopards, sloth bears, tigers, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">barking deer, mouse deer, sambar, giant squirrels, and wild dogs.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is also designated as an <\/span><b>Important Bird Area <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by BirdLife International.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is home to the rare and globally threatened<\/span><b> Nilgiri wood-pigeon,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> along with Ceylon frogmouth, yellow-browed bulbul, dusky eagle-owl, Malabar grey hornbill, and<\/span><b> great pied hornbill, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><b>one of India&#8217;s most admired songbirds,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the <\/span><b>Malabar whistling thrush. <\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>News: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/kolhapur\/first-on-camera-tiger-sighting-by-tourists-recorded-at-radhanagari-dajipur-sanctuary\/amp_articleshow\/135470728.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><b>TOI<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tourists have captured a male Bengal tiger on camera at Radhanagari Wildlife Sanctuary in Maharashtra&#8217;s Kolhapur district, marking a first officially documented tourist sighting. Also known as Dajipur Wildlife Sanctuary, this Western Ghats reserve is famous for conserving the Indian gaur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":131795,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11320],"class_list":["post-131807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-radhanagari-wildlife-sanctuary","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131807","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131807"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131872,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131807\/revisions\/131872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}