{"id":3898,"date":"2023-03-07T11:08:04","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T05:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=3898"},"modified":"2025-03-26T20:24:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T14:54:13","slug":"point-calimere-wildlife-sanctuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/point-calimere-wildlife-sanctuary\/","title":{"rendered":"Point Calimere Wildlife Sanctuary"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About<\/strong> <strong>Point Calimere Wildlife Sanctuary:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Point Calimere Wildlife Sanctuary was established in the year of 1967 and is situated in <strong>the state of Tamil Nadu.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It houses the famous bird sanctuary of Vedaranyam and the Talaignayar forests.<\/li>\n<li>It is flanked by <strong>the Bay of Bengal in the east<\/strong>, and <strong>Palk Strait in the south.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It primarily focuses on the protection and conservation of the black antelopes, an endangered and endemic species that are found in this region.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is designated as a <strong>Ramsar site.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Flora:<\/strong> It has <strong>mangroves<\/strong>, <strong>tropical evergreen forests<\/strong>, and grassland ecosystems.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fauna:<\/strong> Wild boar, macaque, black buck, chital, <strong>Great flamingo, Painted Stork<\/strong>, Little Stint, Seagull and Brown-headed gull are normally found in the sanctuary.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) What is a mangrove forest?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>A mangrove is a shrub or a small tree that grows along the coastlines and has roots in salty sediments, often underwater. They also grow in swamps.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/cities\/Tiruchirapalli\/terrestrial-bird-species-population-see-increase-in-point-calimere-wildlife-sanctuary\/article66583776.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Terrestrial bird species population see an increase in Point Calimere Wildlife Sanctuary<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Point Calimere Wildlife Sanctuary was established in the year of 1967 and is situated in the state of Tamil Nadu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3899,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3898","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\/3898","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=3898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}