{"id":18147,"date":"2025-06-08T02:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T20:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=18147"},"modified":"2025-06-08T21:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T15:54:07","slug":"ranthambore-tiger-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ranthambore-tiger-reserve\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranthambore Tiger Reserve (RTR)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Ranthambore Tiger Reserve Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>The Supreme Court recently ordered the Rajasthan government to impose an immediate ban on all mining activities within the core area of the Ranthambhore Tiger Reserve.<\/p>\n<h2>About Ranthambore Tiger Reserve<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is located in the Sawai Madhopur district of\u00a0<strong>southeastern Rajasthan<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It derives its name from the\u00a0<strong>Ranthambore Fort (a World Heritage Site)\u00a0<\/strong>situated within its precincts.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The reserve is\u00a0<strong>surrounded by the Vindhyas and Aravalis<\/strong>\u00a0hill range.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The area was once a royal hunting ground for the Maharajas of Jaipur.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is one of the largest tiger reserves in northern India. It spans an area of roughly 1,411 sq.km.<\/li>\n<li>It boasts a spectacular landscape filled with boulder-strewn highland plateaus, lakes, and rivers dotted with old forts and abandoned mosques.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rivers<\/strong>: It is bounded\u00a0<strong>to the north by the Bana<\/strong>s River and to the\u00a0<strong>south by the Chambal\u00a0<\/strong>River.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>There are several\u00a0<strong>lakes\u00a0<\/strong>in the park known as\u00a0<strong>Padam Talab, Raj Bagh Talab, and Malik Talab.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Vegetation<\/strong>: It is<strong>\u00a0dry deciduous forests<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>open grassy meadow.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Flora<\/strong>: Pure sands of\u00a0<strong>Dhok tree<\/strong>\u00a0(Anogeissus pendula)\u00a0<strong>interspersed with grasslands<\/strong>\u00a0at the plateaus, and other species like Acacia, Capparis, Zizyphus, and Prosopis, etc are found here.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fauna<\/strong>: It consists of l<strong>eopard, caracal, jungle cat, sambar, chital, chinkara,<\/strong>\u00a0and wild boar.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Ranthambore Tiger Reserve FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. Ranthambore Tiger Reserve is located in which state of India?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Rajasthan<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. Which two mountain ranges surround the Ranthambore Tiger Reserve?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Vindhyas and Aravalis<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. Which rivers form the boundaries of Ranthambore Tiger Reserve?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Banas and Chambal<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uniindia.com\/news\/india\/law-scminingban\/3482738.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">UNI<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ranthambhore Tiger Reserve is located at the junction (great boundary fault) of Aravalis and Vindhyan ranges in the state of Rajasthan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18148,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,742,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-18147","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-prelims-pointers","9":"tag-ranthambhore-tiger-reserve","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\/18147","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=18147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}