{"id":16190,"date":"2023-10-23T10:15:33","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T04:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=16190"},"modified":"2025-04-04T07:37:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T02:07:50","slug":"bannerghatta-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/bannerghatta-national\/","title":{"rendered":"Bannerghatta National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Bannerghatta National Park<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Location: It is located near Bangalore,\u00a0Karnataka, in the\u00a0hills of the Anekal range.<\/li>\n<li>Founded in 1971, the park was given the status of a national park in 1974.<\/li>\n<li>In 2002,\u00a0a portion\u00a0of the park\u00a0became a biological reserve, the\u00a0Bannerghatta Biological Park. It is the\u00a0first biological park\u00a0in India\u00a0to have a fenced, forested elephant sanctuary.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>In 2006, India&#8217;s first butterfly enclosure was inaugurated at the park.<\/li>\n<li>River:\u00a0Suvarnamukhi stream, the main source of water for the animals of the park, runs through the centre\u00a0of the park.<\/li>\n<li>It also acts as an\u00a0important corridor for the elephants migrating from\u00a0the\u00a0Eastern Ghats to the Western Ghats<\/li>\n<li>Vegetation: There are\u00a0three types of vegetation that can be found: Dry Deciduous Scrub Forests,\u00a0Southern Tropical Dry Deciduous Forests and\u00a0Southern Tropical Moist Mixed Forests.<\/li>\n<li>Flora: Include\u00a0Narcissus latifolia, Schleichera oleosa,\u00a0Sandalwood, Neem, Tamarind,\u00a0Bamboo, Eucalyptus etc.<\/li>\n<li>Fauna: Prime habitat for several species, including the endangered Asian\u00a0Elephant,\u00a0Indian gaur, Tiger,\u00a0Sambar deer, Spotted deer, Leopard, Wild dog, Wild pig, Sloth bear, Common mongoose, Pangolin, Slender loris, Black-naped hare, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is an eco-sensitive zone (ESZ)?<\/h3>\n<p>An eco-sensitive zone (ESZ) is an area that is identified and demarcated around protected areas such as national parks, wildlife sanctuaries, and biosphere reserves, to minimize the impact of developmental activities on the ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/cities\/bangalore\/bannerghatta-national-park-encroachment-sc-seeks-karnataka-govt-response-8995025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Bannerghatta National Park encroachment: Supreme Court committee seeks Karnataka govt\u2019s response<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bannerghatta National Park is located near Bangalore, Karnataka, in the hills of the Anekal range.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16191,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16190","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\/16190","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=16190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}