{"id":13904,"date":"2026-03-02T10:01:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T04:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=13904"},"modified":"2026-03-02T12:00:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T06:30:50","slug":"about-pilibhit-tiger-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/about-pilibhit-tiger-reserve\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilibhit Tiger Reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Pilibhit Tiger Reserve Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An adult male tiger, estimated to be between six and seven years old, was found dead near the Mala forest range of Pilibhit Tiger Reserve (PTR).<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Pilibhit Tiger Reserve<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Location:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is located in the <\/span><b>state of Uttar Pradesh<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, forming part of the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/terai\/\" target=\"_blank\">Terai<\/a><\/strong> Arc Landscape, in the upper Gangetic Plain Biogeographic Province.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It lies <\/span><b>along the India-Nepal border<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the foothills of the Himalayas.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Rivers:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The <\/span><b>River Gomti originates from the PTR<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which is also the catchment of several others like Sharda, Chuka, and Mala Khannot.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>Sharda Sagar Dam<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, extending up to a length of 22 km, is <\/span><b>on the boundary<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the reserve.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has a dry and hot climate, which brings a combination of dry teak forest and Vindhya Mountain soils.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Vegetation:<\/b> <b>Tropical Moist Deciduous Forests<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Tropical Dry Deciduous Forests, Seasonal Swamp Forests and Tropical Semi-evergreen Forests are the major forest types found in the reserve.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Flora: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>Sal woodland<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is very dense with good natural regeneration, amounting to almost 76% of the reserve area.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The forest patches are interspersed with grass meadows with several species like Sacchrum, Sclerostachya, Imperata, Themeda, Bothriochloa, Vetiveria, Apluda, Dichanthium, Digitaria and Cyperus.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Fauna:\u00a0 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is home to a myriad of wild animals, including the endangered tiger, swamp deer, Bengal florican, hog deer, leopard, etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/bareilly\/tiger-found-dead-in-ptr-27th-since-2012\/articleshow\/128923550.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TOI<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pilibhit Tiger Reserve is located in the state of Uttar Pradesh, forming part of the Terai Arc Landscape, in the upper Gangetic Plain Biogeographic Province. 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