{"id":28316,"date":"2024-11-29T07:20:03","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T01:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=28316"},"modified":"2025-04-08T18:22:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T12:52:40","slug":"girnar-wildlife-sanctuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/girnar-wildlife-sanctuary\/","title":{"rendered":"Girnar Wildlife Sanctuary"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Girnar Wildlife Sanctuary:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is located in the <strong>Junagadh district of Gujarat.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It spans the rugged terrain of the <strong>Girnar hills<\/strong>, which are a part of the <strong>Saurashtra region<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It was declared a wildlife sanctuary in 2008.<\/li>\n<li>Situated around the Girnar hills, this sanctuary is home to several endangered species, including the Asiatic lion.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Flora<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>Predominantly <strong>dry deciduous forests<\/strong> with species like teak, dhak, acacia, and other drought-resistant plants.<\/li>\n<li>The sanctuary supports a <strong>mix of dense forest, open scrub, and grasslands.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fauna<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>It is filled with abundant wildlife, including <strong>Asiatic lions, spotted deer, Sambar, Chousinghas, Chinkaras,<\/strong> leopards, Indian golden jackals, and around 300 species of birds, which include both resident and migratory.<\/li>\n<li>It serves as an <strong>extension of the Gir National Park&#8217;s lion population<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1<\/strong>: What are Deciduous Forests?<\/h3>\n<p>A deciduous forest is a biome dominated by deciduous trees which lose their leaves seasonally. The Earth has temperate deciduous forests, and tropical and subtropical deciduous forests, also known as dry forests.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/cities\/ahmedabad\/from-94-in-2000-to-83-in-2020-cept-varsity-study-highlights-decline-in-vegetation-in-gujarats-girnar-wildlife-sanctuary-over-2-decades-9688463\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">From 94% in 2000 to 83% in 2020: CEPT varsity study highlights decline in vegetation in Gujarat\u2019s Girnar Wildlife Sanctuary over 2 decades<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Girnar Wildlife Sanctuary is located in the Junagadh district of Gujarat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":28317,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28316","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\/28316","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=28316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}