{"id":18005,"date":"2026-01-23T11:31:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T06:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=18005"},"modified":"2026-01-23T16:09:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T10:39:28","slug":"pws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/pws\/","title":{"rendered":"Pangolakha Wildlife Sanctuary"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Pangolakha Wildlife Sanctuary Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, a forest fire continued to rage inside Sikkim&#8217;s Pangolakha Wildlife Sanctuary along the Indo-China border at an altitude of 13,000 feet.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Pangolakha Wildlife Sanctuary<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Location:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is located in the <\/span><b>state of Sikkim.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is connected to the <\/span><b>forests of Bhutan and <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/neora-np\/\" target=\"_blank\">Neora Valley National Park<\/a><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in West Bengal.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Pangolakha Range, extending below the Chola Range, separates Sikkim from Bhutan.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Vegetation:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It has typical <\/span><b>alpine-temperate-subtropic vegetation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Lakes:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It features high-altitude lakes, <\/span><b>including Lake Tsongmo<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which is a biodiversity hotspot for migratory birds.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Rivers:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Important Rivers like <\/span><b>Rangpo and Jaldhaka<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> originate from nearby lakes within the sanctuary.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Flora:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Rhododendron, Silver Fir, Juniper forest and associated ground flora, moss-filled oak forests.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Fauna:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Tiger, Leopard , Takin, Red Panda, Musk Deer etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/sikkim\/forest-fire-continues-in-sikkims-pangolakha-wildlife-sanctuary-near-indo-china-border\/article70538556.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pangolakha Wildlife Sanctuary is located in the state of Sikkim. Read more about Pangalokha Wildlife Sanctuary, Location, Flora and Fauna, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":83899,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4899,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-18005","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-pangalokha-wildlife-sanctuary","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18005","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=18005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}