{"id":13222,"date":"2026-04-24T11:48:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T06:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=13222"},"modified":"2026-04-24T13:05:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T07:35:45","slug":"srivilliputhur-megamalai-tiger-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/srivilliputhur-megamalai-tiger-reserve\/","title":{"rendered":"Srivilliputhur- Meghamalai Tiger Reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Srivilliputhur- Meghamalai Tiger Reserve Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, the Election authorities set up a special polling station for just five voters inside the Srivilliputhur- Meghamalai Tiger Reserve under the Andipatti Assembly constituency, Tamil Nadu.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Srivilliputhur- Meghamalai Tiger Reserve<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Location:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is located in the state of Tamil<\/span><b> Nadu.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It lies in the ecologically sensitive Western Ghats region.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was formed in February 2021 by combining <\/span><b>Grizzled Squirrel Wildlife Sanctuary<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It will function as a connecting link between <\/span><b>Kerala\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/periyar-tiger-reserve-ptr\/\" target=\"_blank\">Periyar Tiger Reserve<\/a><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and Tamil Nadu\u2019s Southern <\/span><b>Kalakkad-Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Rivers:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The Srivilliputhu Megamalai Tiger Reserve (SMTR) area primarily relies on three perennial rivers: Vaigai, Suruliyaru, and Shanmuganathi.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Vegetation:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It\u2019s a blend of tropical evergreen and semi-evergreen forests, dry deciduous and moist mixed deciduous woods, and grasslands.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Fauna:<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Mammals:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Elephants, Tiger, Leopard, Nilgiri Tahr, Gaur, Spotted Deer, Barking Deer, Sambar Deer, Wild Boar, Porcupine, Nilgiri Langur, Lion-Tailed Macaque etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Birds:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Red-Whiskered Bulbul, Common Iora, White-Browed Wagtail, Grey Wagtail, Pied Bush Chat etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Reptiles:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Wood Snake, Monitor Lizard, Chameleon, etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srivilliputhur- Meghamalai Tiger Reserve is located in the state of Tamil Nadu. Read more about Srivilliputhur Megamalai Tiger Reserve, Location, Flora &#038; Fauna, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":61703,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7094],"class_list":{"0":"post-13222","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-srivilliputhur-meghamalai-tiger-reserve","9":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13222","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=13222"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100026,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13222\/revisions\/100026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}