{"id":19757,"date":"2024-01-27T10:44:51","date_gmt":"2024-01-27T05:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=19757"},"modified":"2025-04-05T19:42:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T14:12:14","slug":"nbr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/nbr\/","title":{"rendered":"Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve (NBR)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve (NBR)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Location:\n<ul>\n<li>It is located in the Nilgiri Mountains of the\u00a0Western Ghats.<\/li>\n<li>It encompasses parts of\u00a0Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and Karnataka.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It was the\u00a0first biosphere reserve in India, established in 1986.<\/li>\n<li>The total area of the reserve is 5,520 sq. km. It is the\u00a0largest protected forest area in India.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0Mudumalai Wildlife Sanctuary, Wyanaad Wildlife Sanctuary,\u00a0Bandipur National Park, Nagarhole National Park, Mukurthi National Park, and Silent Valley are the\u00a0protected areas present within this reserve.<\/li>\n<li>Vegetation: It harbours a\u00a0wide spectrum of ecosystem types, such\u00a0as tropical evergreen forests, Montane sholas and grasslands, semi-evergreen forests, moist deciduous forests, dry deciduous forests, and thorn forests.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Climate: The\u00a0annual rainfall of the reserve ranges from\u00a0500 mm to 7000 mm,\u00a0with temperatures ranging from 0\u00b0C during the winter to 41\u00b0C during the summer.<\/li>\n<li>Tribal Population: Tribal groups like the\u00a0Todas, Kotas, Irullas, Kurumbas, Paniyas, Adiyans, Edanadan Chettis, Cholanaickens, Allar, Malayan, etc., are native to the reserve.<\/li>\n<li>It is\u00a0India&#8217;s first biosphere reserve under UNESCO&#8217;s Man and the Biosphere Programme.<\/li>\n<li>Flora:\n<ul>\n<li>About 3,300 species of flowering plants can be seen here. Of the 3,300 species, 132 are endemic to the NBR.<\/li>\n<li>Some of the plants entirely restricted to the NBR include species of Adenoon, Calacanthus, Baeolepis, Frerea, Jarodina, Wagatea, Poeciloneuron, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Fauna:\n<ul>\n<li>It includes the\u00a0largest known population\u00a0of two endangered animal species, namely the\u00a0Nilgiri Tahr and the Lion-tailed macaque and the\u00a0largest South Indian population of elephant, tiger, gaur, sambar, and chital.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the Nilgiri Tahr?<\/h3>\n<p>Nilgiri Tahr is the only Caprinae species found in the tropical mountains of southern.They are endemic to the Western Ghats and used to inhabit a large part of the Western Ghats between Kerala and Tamil Nadu. They are classified as Endangered under the IUCN Red List.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/tamil-nadu\/indias-southernmost-vulture-population-stands-at-320-individuals\/article67775835.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>India\u2019s southernmost vulture population stands at 320 individuals<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve is located in the Nilgiri Mountains of the Western Ghats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19758,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19757","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19757","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=19757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}