{"id":17984,"date":"2026-05-30T12:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T07:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=17984"},"modified":"2026-05-30T13:33:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T08:03:36","slug":"banni-grassland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/banni-grassland\/","title":{"rendered":"Banni Grassland"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Banni Grassland Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NTPC\u2019s proposed solar project in Gujarat\u2019s Banni grassland threatens one of Asia\u2019s most fragile ecosystems.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Banni Grassland<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Location:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is located along the northern border of <\/span><b>Kachchh district in the state of Gujarat.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>Kutch Desert Wildlife Sanctuary and Chhari Dhand Conservation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Reserve are <\/span><b>part of<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the <\/span><b>Banni Grasslands.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is also home to <\/span><b>22 ethnic groups, the<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> majority of whom are <\/span><b>pastoralists <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">such as the <\/span><b>Maldharis, the Rabaris, the Jats, the Mutwas, and the Meghwals.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is home to great biological diversity, having 37 grass species, 275 bird species, and domesticated animals like Buffalo, Sheep, Goat, Horses and Camel, as well as wildlife.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Flora:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The vegetation here mainly comprises <\/span><b>Prosopis Juliflora, Cressa critica<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Cyperus spp, Sporobolus, Dichanthium, and Aristida.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Fauna:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is home to mammals such as the Nilgai, Chinkara, Blackbuck, Wild boar, Golden Jackal, Indian Hare, Indian Wolf, Caracal, Asiatic Wildcat and Desert Fox etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/gujarat\/gujarats-banni-grasslands-a-heap-of-broken-images-where-the-sun-beats\/article71032681.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banni Grassland is located along the northern border of Kachchh district in the state of Gujarat. Read more about Banni Grassland, Location, Flora and Fauna, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":105885,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7835],"class_list":{"0":"post-17984","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-banni-grassland","9":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17984","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=17984"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105899,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17984\/revisions\/105899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}