{"id":28045,"date":"2024-11-17T03:35:40","date_gmt":"2024-11-16T22:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=28045"},"modified":"2025-04-08T16:19:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T10:49:15","slug":"senna-tora-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/senna-tora-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Senna tora Plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Senna tora Plant:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a native species of <strong>Central America.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Habitat:<\/strong> It is an annual, perennial or subshrub and grows <strong>primarily in the wet tropical biome.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>emerging in drier areas<\/strong> and germinates after the southwest monsoon and gradually withers by the end of the year.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Uses:<\/strong> It is used as animal food, a poison and a medicine, has environmental uses and for food.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Key facts about Mudumalai Tiger Reserve (MTR)<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Location:<\/strong> It is located in the Nilgiris District of Tamil Nadu state at the <strong>tri-junction<\/strong> of three states, viz, <strong>Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The name Mudumalai means the ancient hill range because it is as old as 65 million years when the Western Ghats were formed.<\/li>\n<li>It has a common boundary with <strong>Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary<\/strong> (Kerala) on the West, and <strong>Bandipur Tiger Reserve<\/strong> (Karnataka) on the North.<\/li>\n<li>The Theppakadu elephant camp is a popular tourist attraction.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vegetation:<\/strong> A variety of habitats ranging from tropical evergreen forest, moist deciduous forest, moist teak forest, dry teak forest, secondary grasslands and swamps are found here.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Flora:<\/strong> The Reserve has tall grasses, commonly referred to as \u201cElephant Grass\u201d, Bamboo of the giant variety, valuable timber species like Teak, Rosewood, etc.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fauna:<\/strong> Elephants, Gaur, Tiger, Panther, Spotted Deer, Barking Deer, Wild Boar, Porcupine etc.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is an invasive species?<\/h3>\n<p>It is non-native (or alien) to the ecosystem under consideration and, whose introduction causes or is likely to cause economic or environmental harm or harm to human health.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/tamil-nadu\/how-tn-forest-dept-is-tackling-senna-tora-plants-an-emerging-threat-to-mudumalais-native-ecology\/article68866831.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>How T.N. Forest Dept. is tackling Senna tora plants, an emerging threat to Mudumalai\u2019s native ecology<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senna tora Plant is an annual, perennial or subshrub and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":28046,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28045","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\/28045","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=28045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}