{"id":3234,"date":"2023-02-11T12:03:04","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T06:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=3234"},"modified":"2025-03-26T11:09:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T05:39:25","slug":"where-is-sundarban-biosphere-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/where-is-sundarban-biosphere-reserve\/","title":{"rendered":"Where is Sundarban Biosphere Reserve?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Why in news?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The first-ever festival was organised by the Sundarban Tiger Reserve (STR) division of the West Bengal Forest Department, where six teams visited different areas inside the Sundarban Biosphere Reserve.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Key facts of the Sundarban Biosphere Reserve<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The Sundarbans is located on the delta of the Ganga, Brahmaputra and Meghna rivers in the Bay of Bengal.<\/li>\n<li>This Biosphere Reserve includes <strong>Sundarban Tiger Reserve<\/strong>, Sundarban National Park (core area), Halliday Island and <strong>Lothian Island Wildlife Sanctuaries with Sajnakhali Wildlife Sanctuary<\/strong> forming its buffer area.<\/li>\n<li>It is designated as a <strong>UNESCO World Heritage site.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Flora:<\/strong> The vegetation of the area is moist tropical forests and tidal forests.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fauna:<\/strong> It is home to Royal Bengal Tiger, Estuarine Crocodile, Gangetic Dolphin, Water Monitor Lizard etc<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What are Biosphere Reserves?<\/h3>\n<p>Biosphere reserves are \u2018learning places for sustainable development\u2019. They are sites for testing interdisciplinary approaches to understanding and managing changes and interactions between social and ecological systems.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/energy-and-environment\/145-bird-species-spotted-during-the-first-bird-festival-in-sundarbans\/article66494231.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>145 bird species were spotted during the first bird festival in Sundarbans<\/u><\/a><br \/>\n\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sundarbans is located on the delta of the Ganga, Brahmaputra and Meghna rivers in the Bay of Bengal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3235,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3234","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\/3234","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=3234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}