{"id":13395,"date":"2025-07-15T14:30:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T09:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=13395"},"modified":"2025-07-15T16:20:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T10:50:28","slug":"about-mhadei-wildlife-sanctuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/about-mhadei-wildlife-sanctuary\/","title":{"rendered":"Mhadei Wildlife Sanctuary"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Mhadei Wildlife Sanctuary Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Environmentalists recently expressed serious concern over the approval of an eco-tourism resort project on the Surla plateau, stating that the project area falls within a critical tiger habitat within the Mhadei Wildlife Sanctuary.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>About Mhadei Wildlife Sanctuary<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is located in the northern part of <\/span><b>Goa <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the <\/span><b>Western Ghats.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It spreads over an area of 208 sq.km. and derives its name from the <\/span><b>Mhadei river,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which flows across this Sanctuary.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are a number of <\/span><b>picturesque waterfalls<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> within the sanctuary boundaries. The most prominent are the <\/span><b>Vazra Sakla Falls <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and the <\/span><b>Virdi Falls.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>three highest peaks of Goa<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>Sonsogod <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(1027 m), <\/span><b>Talvche Sada<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (812 m), and <\/span><b>Vagheri <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(725 m), are located within this Sanctuary.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Flora<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The sanctuary\u2019s dense forests are <\/span><b>predominantly semi-evergreen<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>moist deciduous<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, hosting trees like <\/span><b>teak, sal, and bamboo<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> along with <\/span><b>medicinal plants<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>orchids<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The sanctuary is particularly well-known for its <\/span><b>sacred groves<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that protect rare and indigenous trees.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Fauna<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its fauna includes <\/span><b>Bengal tigers, black panthers<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, leopards, sloth bears, gaur (Indian bison), and a variety of deer.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The sanctuary is a huge attraction for herpetologists since it contains a large variety of snakes, including all of the <\/span><b>\u2018big four\u2019 of Indian venomous snakes,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which are the <\/span><b>Indian krait, Russell\u2019s viper, Saw-scaled viper, and Spectacled cobra.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It boasts over <\/span><b>250 bird species<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, including the <\/span><b>Malabar trogon, great pied hornbill<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><b>Nilgiri wood pigeon<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, many of which are <\/span><b>endemic to the Western Ghats. <\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\">The<b style=\"font-size: inherit;\"> cliff face near the Vazra Falls<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is notable for being the <\/span><b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">nesting grounds of the critically endangered Long-billed vultures.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/goa\/greens-call-for-protection-of-goas-unique-lateritic-plateaus\/articleshow\/122455864.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TOI<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mhadei Wildlife Sanctuary in northern Goa, nestled in the Western Ghats, spans lush forests, valleys and streams. A biodiversity hotspot home to tigers, leopards, hornbills, orchids. Read more about Mhadei Wildlife Sanctuary, Location, Flora and Fauna, Latest News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":55001,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1554,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-13395","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-mhadei-wildlife-sanctuary","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13395","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=13395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}