{"id":20112,"date":"2025-09-07T16:43:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T11:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=20112"},"modified":"2025-09-07T17:55:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T12:25:33","slug":"corbett-tiger-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/corbett-tiger-reserve\/","title":{"rendered":"Corbett Tiger Reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Corbett Tiger Reserve Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A special annual survey undertaken by the forest department of Uttarakhand to estimate the number of tigers in the Ramnagar division, adjoining Corbett Tiger Reserve, has shown a sharp jump over three years.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Corbett Tiger Reserve<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is located on the foothills of the <\/span><b>Himalayas in Uttarakhand.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was originally established as <\/span><b>Hailey National Park in 1936.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is not only the first national park in India, but also the first to <\/span><b>come under the Project Tiger initiative.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Terrain:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The terrain is undulating with several valleys. The <\/span><b>rivers Ramganga, Pallaen<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><b>Sonanadi<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> flow through the valleys.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is spread over <\/span><b>the Bhabar and lower Shivalik regions<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with a deep-water table.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The tract is porous with boulders and sand deposits.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Vegetation:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> North Indian tropical moist deciduous forests and tropical dry deciduous forests:<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In general, the vegetation <\/span><b>comprises sal and mixed forests,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> interspersed with <\/span><b>grass lands and riparian vegetation.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The grasslands are <\/span><b>locally known as \u2018Chaur\u2019,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which are an outcome of abandoned settlements or past clearings.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Flora: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Evergreen Sal and its combined trees, the <\/span><b>Sheesham, and the Kanju <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">are found extensively on the ridges.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Fauna:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Tigers and elephants, leopards, sambar, hog deer, spotted deer etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/near-corbett-another-tiger-success-story-plays-out-29-more-big-cats-since-2022-10234623\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corbett Tiger Reserve in Uttarakhand, India\u2019s first national park (1936), spans Shivalik valleys with rivers and was the first under Project Tiger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":20113,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2559,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-20112","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-corbett-tiger-reserve","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\/20112","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=20112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}