{"id":13904,"date":"2026-09-22T12:01:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T06:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=13904"},"modified":"2026-09-22T15:28:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T09:58:06","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 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tourists will now be able to visit the Pilibhit Tiger Reserve (PTR) for nearly eight months, with the tourism season extended from November 1 to June 30, a senior forest official said recently. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Pilibhit Tiger Reserve<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is situated in the Pilibhit and Lakhimpur Kheri districts of <\/span><b>Uttar Pradesh<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, forming part of the<\/span><b> Terai Arc Landscape,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the <\/span><b>upper Gangetic Plain.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It lies along the <\/span><b>India-Nepal border<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the foothills of the Himalayas.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Rivers<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: The<\/span><b><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/gomti-river\/\" target=\"_blank\"> River Gomti<\/a> originates <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">from the PTR, which is also the <\/span><b>catchment <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of several others like<\/span><b> Sharda, Chuka, and Mala Khannot.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><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 on the boundary of the reserve.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has a <\/span><b>dry and hot climate<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which brings a <\/span><b>combination of dry teak forest and Vindhya Mountain soils.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Vegetation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><b>Tropical Moist Deciduous Forests, Tropical Dry Deciduous Forests, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seasonal <\/span><b>Swamp Forests<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and T<\/span><b>ropical Semi-evergreen Forests <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">are the major forest types found in the reserve.<\/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;\">The<\/span><b><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/sal-tree\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Sal<\/a> woodland <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is very dense with good natural regeneration, amounting to almost <\/span><b>76% of the reserve area.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Other trees like <\/span><b>teak, khair, semal<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and Mahua are also seen.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Fauna<\/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>News: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/theprint.in\/india\/pilibhit-tiger-reserve-tourism-season-extended-by-one-month-from-nov-1-to-jun-30\/3047977\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><b>TP<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pilibhit Tiger Reserve is situated in the Pilibhit and Lakhimpur Kheri districts of Uttar Pradesh, forming part of the Terai Arc Landscape, in the upper Gangetic Plain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":90709,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,22,23],"class_list":["post-13904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-prelims-pointers","tag-upsc-current-affairs","tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13904","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=13904"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125721,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13904\/revisions\/125721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}