{"id":18567,"date":"2025-07-13T17:07:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T11:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=18567"},"modified":"2025-07-13T18:07:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T12:37:37","slug":"pong-dam-lake-wildlife-sanctuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/pong-dam-lake-wildlife-sanctuary\/","title":{"rendered":"Pong Dam Lake Wildlife Sanctuary"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Pong Dam Lake Wildlife Sanctuary Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hundreds of buffaloes can be seen grazing freely in the restricted Pong wildlife sanctuary area in Samkehar, Bathu and Panalath near the Pong Wetland in clear violation of sanctuary norms.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Pong Dam Lake Wildlife Sanctuary<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pong Dam Lake (also known as <\/span><b>Maharana Pratap Sagar)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a <\/span><b>manmade reservoir<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> formed due to the <\/span><b>construction of Pong Dam on the Beas River<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the wetland zone of the <\/span><b>Shivalik hills <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the Kangra district of <\/span><b>Himachal Pradesh<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>Pong Dam<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is the <\/span><b>highest earth-fill dam in India <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and was constructed in 1975.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is one of the largest <\/span><b>man-made wetlands <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in Northern India.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Covering about 245 sq.km., the sanctuary <\/span><b>c<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">omprises the water body of the <\/span><b>reservoir as well as surrounding wetland environments.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pong Dam Lake was designated a <\/span><b>Ramsar site <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in 2002.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Flora<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Consists of <\/span><b>submerged vegetation, grasslands, and forests<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, including species like eucalyptus, acacia, and shisham.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Fauna<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Given the site\u2019s <\/span><b>location on the trans-Himalayan flyway,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> more than <\/span><b>220 bird species<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> have been identified, with <\/span><b>54 species of waterfowl.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Avifauna include <\/span><b>Bar-headed geese, Pintails, common pochards,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> coots, Grebes, Cormorants, Herons, Storks, , angle fowls, peafowl, Grey partridges, etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is also home to animals like <\/span><b>Sambar, Barking Deer, Wild Bear, Nilgai, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Clawless Otter, and Leopards.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tribuneindia.com\/news\/himachal\/grazing-out-of-control-buffaloes-roam-free-in-pong-wildlife-sanctuary-area\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TI<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pong Dam Lake Wildlife Sanctuary is a manmade reservoir located in the Kangra district of Himachal Pradesh. 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