{"id":31819,"date":"2025-04-07T05:13:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T23:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=31819"},"modified":"2025-04-16T15:03:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T09:33:42","slug":"balukhand-konark-wildlife-sanctuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/balukhand-konark-wildlife-sanctuary\/","title":{"rendered":"Balukhand-Konark Wildlife Sanctuary"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Balukhand-Konark Wildlife Sanctuary Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>A recent study found that dense vegetation in Balukhand-Konark Wildlife Sanctuary, home to spotted deer and blackbucks, has shrunk from 41.8% in 1993 to 37.1% in 2023.<\/p>\n<h2>About Balukhand-Konark Wildlife Sanctuary<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is located in <strong>Puri district, Odisha.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It was declared a sanctuary on 23 April 1984.<\/li>\n<li>It has an area of 87 sq.km.<\/li>\n<li>It was established on the <strong>sandy tract covered by plantation of casurina and cashew <\/strong>trees, <strong>along the coast between Puri and Konark.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is traversed by the rivulets such as <strong>Nuanai River, Kusabhadra River, Kadua River, <\/strong>and <strong>Prachi River.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Flora<\/strong>:\u00a0\n<ul>\n<li>Apart from cashew and casurina plantation, <strong>Australian acacia and eucalyptus <\/strong>plantations has also been done.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jamun, ficus, neem, karanj, and polang trees<\/strong> are also found, mostly along the course of the Kusabhadra and Nuanai rivers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fauna:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It is home to herds of herbivores (<strong>spotted deer)<\/strong>, monkeys, jungle cat, hyena, monitor lizard, snakes, etc.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Olive Ridley sea turtles<\/strong> have been seen nesting on the beach.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Balukhand-Konark Wildlife Sanctuary FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. In which Indian state is the Balukhand-Konark Wildlife Sanctuary located?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Odisha<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. What kind of habitat is the sanctuary primarily based on?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Sandy coastal tract<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. Which marine species nests on the beach near the Balukhand-Konark Wildlife Sanctuary ?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Olive Ridley turtle<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/bhubaneswar\/balukhand-konark-wildlife-sanctuary-facing-ecological-challenges-study\/articleshow\/120041931.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TOI<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Balukhand-Konark Wildlife Sanctuary, located in Puri district, Odisha, is known for its coastal ecosystem, rich wildlife, and scenic beauty along the Bay of Bengal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":31820,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31819","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\/31819","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=31819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}