{"id":14791,"date":"2024-10-18T04:41:06","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T23:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=14791"},"modified":"2025-04-02T22:58:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T17:28:27","slug":"gandhi-sagar-wildlife-sanctuary-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/gandhi-sagar-wildlife-sanctuary-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Gandhi Sagar Wildlife Sanctuary"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Gandhi Sagar Wildlife Sanctuary:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Location<\/strong>: It is situated in <strong>northwestern Madhya Pradesh<\/strong>, with one of its boundaries running <strong>along the border of Rajasthan<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It lies in the <strong>Khathiar-Gir dry deciduous forests ecoregion<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The sanctuary was notified in 1974 and is spread over an area of 368 sq.km.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The River Chambal<\/strong> flows through the sanctuary, dividing it into two parts.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Topography<\/strong>: The sanctuary is characterized by its diverse topography, which includes hills, plateaus, and the <strong>catchment area of the Gandhi Sagar Dam<\/strong> on the Chambal River.<\/li>\n<li>Gandhi Sagar Wildlife Sanctuary and the reservoir is also a designated <strong>Important Bird and Biodiversity Area (IBA).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Vegetation<\/strong>: <strong>Northern tropical dry deciduous forest<\/strong>, <strong>Northern tropical dry mixed deciduous forest<\/strong> and <strong>Dry deciduous scrub<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Flora<\/strong>: The principal tree species found here are <strong>Khair, Salai, Kardhai, Dhawda<\/strong>, Tendu and Palash.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fauna<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>Herbivores like <strong>Chinkara, Nilgai, and Spotted Deer<\/strong>, and carnivores like the Indian <strong>Leopard, Striped Hyena,<\/strong> and Jackal are found in good numbers in the region.<\/li>\n<li>It also has a good population of <strong>crocodiles<\/strong>, fish, otters, and turtles.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The sanctuary has <strong>many places of historical<\/strong>, archeological, <strong>and religious importance,<\/strong> such as <strong>Chaurasigarh, Chaturbhujnath temple, Bhadkaji rock paintings<\/strong>, <strong>Narsinghjhar Hinglajgarh fort, Taxakeshwar temple,<\/strong> etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1<\/strong>: Which are the main tributaries of the Chambal River?<\/h3>\n<p>The tributaries of the Chambal include KShipra, Choti Kalisindh, Sivanna, Retam, Ansar, Kalisindh, Banas, Parbati, Seep, Kuwari, Kuno, Alnia, Mej, Chakan, Parwati, Chamla, Gambhir, Lakhunder, Khan, Bangeri, Kedel and Teelar.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/travel\/travel-news\/gandhi-sagar-sanctuary-set-to-become-indias-next-cheetah-haven-after-kuno\/articleshow\/114275696.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Gandhi Sagar Sanctuary set to become India\u2019s next Cheetah haven after Kuno!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gandhi Sagar Wildlife Sanctuary is situated in northwestern Madhya Pradesh, with one of its boundaries running along the border of Rajasthan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":14792,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14791","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14791","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=14791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}