{"id":1855,"date":"2025-01-02T11:44:15","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T06:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=1855"},"modified":"2025-01-12T16:12:51","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T10:42:51","slug":"shendurney-wildlife-sanctuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/shendurney-wildlife-sanctuary\/","title":{"rendered":"Shendurney Wildlife Sanctuary"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Shendurney Wildlife Sanctuary:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is located in the <strong>southern part of<\/strong> the <strong>Western Ghats<\/strong> in the Kollam district of <strong>Kerala<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It spans an area of approximately 172 sq.km. and forms <strong>part of the Agasthyamala Biosphere Reserve.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Most of the Sanctuary area is hilly and interspersed with ravines.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Drainage<\/strong>: The major rivers are <strong>Shendurney, Kazhuthuruthy, and Kulathupuzha,<\/strong> which join together to form the Kallada River.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Flora<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>The vegetation primarily consists of <strong>tropical evergreen<\/strong> forests, <strong>semi-evergreen<\/strong> forests, and <strong>moist deciduous<\/strong> forests.<\/li>\n<li>The name &#8220;<strong>Shendurney<\/strong>&#8221; is derived from the n<strong>ame of a tree species, Gluta travancorica, locally known as \u2018Chenkurunji\u2019<\/strong>, which is <strong>endemic <\/strong>to this region and found in abundance within the sanctuary.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fauna:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Notable mammals include <strong>elephants, tigers, leopards<\/strong>, gaurs (Indian bison), sambar deer, barking deer, wild boars, and bonnet macaques.<\/li>\n<li>The sanctuary also supports a significant population of <strong>Nilgiri langurs and lion-tailed macaques<\/strong>, both of which are <strong>endemic to the Western Ghats<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Over <strong>200 species of birds <\/strong>are recorded in the sanctuary. Some of the notable species include the <strong>great Indian hornbill, Malabar pied hornbill,<\/strong> grey-headed bulbul, white-bellied treepie, and various species of woodpeckers, flycatchers, and raptors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1<\/strong>: Which are the sanctuaries located in the Agasthyamalai Biosphere Reserve?<\/h3>\n<p>Agasthyamalai Biosphere Reserve includes three wildlife sanctuaries namely Shendurney, Peppara and Neyyar.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/kerala\/faunal-survey-at-shendurney-wildlife-sanctuary-enriches-regional-species-checklist\/article69043321.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A four-day faunal survey conducted at the Shendurney Wildlife Sanctuary has added significant findings to the sanctuary\u2019s biodiversity records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1872,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[120,22,115,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-1855","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-shendurney-wildlife-sanctuary","9":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","10":"tag-upsc-prelims-articles","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\/1855","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}