{"id":30894,"date":"2023-08-24T01:23:16","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T19:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=30894"},"modified":"2025-04-16T00:46:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T19:16:52","slug":"jambughoda-wildlife-sanctuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/jambughoda-wildlife-sanctuary\/","title":{"rendered":"Jambughoda Wildlife Sanctuary"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Jambughoda Wildlife Sanctuary:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is located in <strong>Gujarat\u2019s south-central part.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Vegetation:<\/strong> It contains Grasslands, water-borne plants, medicinal herbs, dry <strong>southern tropical rain forests,<\/strong> <strong>dry deciduous mixed and secondary forests<\/strong>, dry scrubs of the deciduous type.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Flora:<\/strong> Teak, mahua and bamboo thickets cover the length and breadth of the forest.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fauna:<\/strong> Wild boars, nilgais (blue bull), jackals, hyenas, barking deer, sloth bears, and chausinghas (four-horned antelope) and leopards.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h3>What are Eco-Sensitive Zones?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Land within <strong>10 km of the boundaries of national parks and wildlife sanctuaries<\/strong> are to be notified as eco-fragile zones or Eco-Sensitive Zones (ESZ).<\/li>\n<li>While the 10-km rule is implemented as a general principle, the extent of its application can vary.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Areas beyond 10-km<\/strong> can also be <strong>notified by the Union government as ESZs<\/strong>, if they hold larger ecologically important \u201csensitive corridors\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h3>Why are Eco-Sensitive Zones created?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>They are <strong>created as \u201cshock absorbers<\/strong>\u201d for the protected areas, to minimize the negative impact on the \u201cfragile ecosystems\u201d by certain human activities taking place nearby.<\/li>\n<li>Furthermore, these areas <strong>are meant to act as a transition zone<\/strong> from areas requiring higher protection to those requiring lesser protection.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is Tropical rainforest?<\/h3>\n<p>Tropical rainforests are lush, biodiverse ecosystems found near the equator, where warm temperatures, high humidity, and abundant rainfall create a unique environment that supports an incredible variety of plant and animal life. These rainforests are often referred to as the &#8220;lungs of the Earth&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/cities\/rajkot\/decision-deferred-as-concerns-raised-over-jambughoda-sanctuary-8908264\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Decision deferred as concerns raised over Jambughoda Sanctuary<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jambughoda Wildlife Sanctuary is located in the state of Gujarat, India. It is situated in the Panchmahal district and covers an area of approximately 130.38 square kilometers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30895,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30894","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\/30894","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=30894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}