{"id":16748,"date":"2023-11-06T12:59:35","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T07:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=16748"},"modified":"2025-04-04T22:58:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T17:28:54","slug":"gnp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/gnp\/","title":{"rendered":"Guindy National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Guindy National Park<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It\u00a0is India\u2019s eighth-smallest national park and one of the very few\u00a0national parks located inside a city.<\/li>\n<li>It is located in the heart of\u00a0Chennai\u2019s metropolitan area of Tamil Nadu.<\/li>\n<li>It is one of the last remnants of\u00a0the tropical dry evergreen forests of the Coromandel Coast.<\/li>\n<li>Flora: Tropical dry evergreen forest, Scrub and thorn forests.<\/li>\n<li>Fauna: Blackbuck, Toddy cat, Civet cat, Jungle cat, Pangolin, Hedgehog, Shrew and black-naped hare etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key points about the tropical dry evergreen forests of India<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Tropical Dry Evergreen Forest is a unique forest found only in\u00a0Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh.<\/li>\n<li>The dissymmetric climatic condition of this region,\u00a0where rainfall occurs both during summer and winter monsoons and extended the dry season from March to September, favours the development and sustenance of the Tropical Dry Evergreen forest in this narrow strip.<\/li>\n<li>It looks like a scrub-woodland or an opportunistic assemblage of species adapted to local microclimatic conditions.<\/li>\n<li>It is known to have a\u00a0mixture of trees, shrubs, climbers, grasses and herbs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What are National parks?<\/h3>\n<p>These are protected areas designated by governments to conserve and protect natural landscapes, ecosystems, and wildlife. These areas are often established to preserve the natural beauty and ecological diversity of a region, provide opportunities for outdoor recreation and education, and promote scientific research.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/cities\/chennai\/guindy-national-park-teeming-with-blackbucks-and-birds\/article67500441.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Guindy National Park teeming with blackbuck and birds<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guindy National Park is India\u2019s eighth-smallest national park and one of the very few national parks located inside a city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16749,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16748","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\/16748","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=16748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}