{"id":29277,"date":"2026-04-08T14:02:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T08:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=29277"},"modified":"2026-04-08T15:18:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T09:48:36","slug":"umred-pauni-karhandla-wildlife-sanctuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/umred-pauni-karhandla-wildlife-sanctuary\/","title":{"rendered":"Umred\u2013Pauni\u2013Karhandla Wildlife Sanctuary"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Umred\u2013Pauni\u2013Karhandla Wildlife Sanctuary Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, a melanistic (black-colored) spotted deer, commonly known as a chital, has been spotted at the Umred\u2013Pauni\u2013Karhandla Wildlife Sanctuary near Nagpur.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Umred\u2013Pauni\u2013Karhandla Wildlife Sanctuary<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Location:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is spread over Pauni tehsil in Bhandara district and Umred, Kuhi, and Bhivapur Taluka of Nagpur district in <\/span><b>Maharashtra.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was established in 2013 and is spread across an area of 189 sq. km.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is surrounded by<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the <\/span><b>Wainganga River<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the Gose Khurd Dam along the northeast boundaries of the sanctuary, while State Highway 9 and Bhiwapur Town bound the southern side.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The forest along the Wainganga River connects this sanctuary to the <\/span><b><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/tadoba-andhari-tiger-reserve\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve<\/a>.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It lies 80 km from <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/pench-tiger-reserve-upsc\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pench Tiger Reserve<\/a><\/strong> and 50 kilometers southwest of Nagzira Wildlife Sanctuary.<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Flora:<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The forest is made up of teak, bamboo, tendu, mahua, and other indigenous tree species.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Teak makes up 60 percent of the crop composition.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Fauna:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The sanctuary is home to resident breeding tigers, herds of Gaur, wild dogs, and also rare animals like flying squirrels, pangolins, and honey badgers<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/thelivenagpur.com\/2026\/04\/08\/rare-melanistic-spotted-deer-sighted-at-umred-pauni-karhandla-wildlife-sanctuary\/#google_vignette\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TLN<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Umred\u2013Pauni\u2013Karhandla Sanctuary in Maharashtra saw rare melanistic chital sighting; key tiger corridor with rich biodiversity linking Tadoba and nearby reserves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":97178,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,6702,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-29277","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-prelims-pointers","9":"tag-umred-pauni-karhandla-wildlife-sanctuary","10":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","11":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29277","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=29277"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97245,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29277\/revisions\/97245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}