{"id":3043,"date":"2023-02-19T07:10:45","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T01:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=3043"},"modified":"2025-03-26T09:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T04:27:07","slug":"debrigarh-tiger-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/debrigarh-tiger-reserve\/","title":{"rendered":"Debrigarh Tiger Reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Debrigarh Tiger Reserve:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Located near the <strong>Hirakud dam <\/strong>at Sambalpur, spread over an area of 347 sq km Debrigarh Wildlife Sanctuary is one of the famous tourist destinations of western <strong>Odisha<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It will become the <strong>third tiger reserve in Odisha<\/strong> after Similipal and Satkosia.<\/li>\n<li>It was declared as a wildlife sanctuary in<strong> 1985 <\/strong>and situated in the <strong>Bargarh district of Odisha<\/strong> near Hirakud dam<strong> (<\/strong><u>Mahanadi River<\/u>).<\/li>\n<li>It finds a special mention because of noted <strong>freedom fighter veer Surendra sai<\/strong>.<strong> During his rebellion against the British Veer SurendraSaimade his base at \u2018Barapathara\u201d located within the sanctuary.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Fauna:<\/strong> A wide varieties of animals including leopard, wild boar, bison, sambar, chital and Four-horned antelope are sighted in the sanctuary.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the National Tiger Conservation Authority?<\/h3>\n<p>The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) is a statutory body tasked with the management of Project Tiger and the many Tiger Reserves in India. It was established in December 2005 following the recommendation of the Tiger Task Force.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/newsroomodisha.com\/centre-approves-odishas-proposal-to-declare-debrigarh-a-tiger-reserve\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Centre Approves Odisha\u2019s Proposal to Declare Debrigarh a Tiger Reserve<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Debrigarh Tiger Reserve will become the third tiger reserve in Odisha after Similipal and Satkosia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3044,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3043","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\/3043","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=3043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}