{"id":39992,"date":"2026-05-06T13:25:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T07:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=39992"},"modified":"2026-05-06T14:44:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T09:14:38","slug":"jim-corbett-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/jim-corbett-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Corbett National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Jim Corbett National Park Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Uttarakhand recently witnessed the death of Vikram, a 21-year-old Bengal tiger and one of the most well-known residents of Jim Corbett National Park.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Jim Corbett National Park<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is located in the<\/span><b> foothills of the Himalayas<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the Nainital district of <\/span><b>Uttarakhand<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Spanning over 1,300 sq. km., it is a <\/span><b>part of the Corbett Tiger Reserve.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was<\/span><b> established in 1936 as Hailey National Park<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and was later <\/span><b>renamed in 1957 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in <\/span><b>memory of Jim Corbett,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a famous <\/span><b>hunter turned conservationist<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, who played a key role in the establishment of the park.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is not only the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/national-parks-in-india\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>first national park in India<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> but also the<\/span><b> first to come under <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the <\/span><b>Project Tiger<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> initiative.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is spread over the <\/span><b>Bhabar and lower Shivalik regions <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">with a <\/span><b>deep-water table.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The tract is porous with boulders and sand deposits.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Drainage<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>Ramganga River (West)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and its important tributaries &#8211; Sonanadi, Palain, and Mandal, constitute the primary water source for the region.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Additionally, the <\/span><b>Kosi <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">River runs adjacent to the national park.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Vegetation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><b>North Indian tropical moist deciduous forests<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>tropical dry deciduous forests:<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Flora<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In general, the park comprises<\/span><b> sal and mixed forests, interspersed with grasslands <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and riparian vegetation.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>grasslands <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">are<\/span><b> locally known as \u2018Chaur\u2019,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which are an <\/span><b>outcome of abandoned settlements <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">or past clearings.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Evergreen Sal <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and its combined trees, the <\/span><b>Sheesham<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the <\/span><b>Kanju, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">are found extensively on the ridges.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Fauna<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><b>Tigers, elephants,<\/b> <b>leopards<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, sambar, hog deer, spotted deer, etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newindianexpress.com\/nation\/2026\/May\/05\/uttarakhand-corbetts-notorious-bengal-tiger-vikram-dies-at-21-in-dhela-rescue-centre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NIE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Corbett National Park in Uttarakhand is India first national park and a Project Tiger reserve, known for rich biodiversity, sal forests, rivers, and wildlife like tigers and elephants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":102092,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7370,21,350],"class_list":{"0":"post-39992","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-jim-corbett-national-park","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-afffairs","11":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39992","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=39992"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102140,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39992\/revisions\/102140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}