{"id":3366,"date":"2023-02-13T09:31:02","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T04:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=3366"},"modified":"2025-03-26T11:59:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T06:29:23","slug":"nagarahole-tiger-reserve-is-in-karnataka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/nagarahole-tiger-reserve-is-in-karnataka\/","title":{"rendered":"Nagarahole Tiger Reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>\u00a0About Nagarahole Tiger Reserve:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Nagarahole is an important Tiger Reserve in<strong> Karnataka<\/strong> and is a major hub of conservation under Project Tiger and Project Elephant.<\/li>\n<li>Nagarahole Tiger Reserve previously known as Rajiv Gandhi National Park was named after the river Nagarahole.<\/li>\n<li>This tiger reserve forms a critical connecting habitat for tigers and elephants to other areas of the Western Ghats through the <strong>Brahmagiri wildlife sanctuary<\/strong> and to the Eastern Ghats through the <strong>Bandipur Tiger reserve.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Flora:<\/strong> It consists mainly of <strong>moist deciduous forests<\/strong> with predominating trees of teak and rosewood.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fauna:<\/strong> Tiger, Leopard Asiatic, Wild Dog, Sloth Bear, Asiatic Elephant, Gaur, Sambar Chital Muntjac, Four Horned Antelope etc\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Project Elephant?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme with the objectives to protect elephants, their habitat &amp; corridors, address issues of man-animal conflict and welfare of captive elephants.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/karnataka\/survey-records-290-bird-species-in-nagarahole\/article66500766.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Survey records 290 bird species in Nagarahole<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nagarahole is a major hub of conservation under Project Tiger and Project Elephant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3367,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3366","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\/3366","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=3366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}