{"id":4038,"date":"2025-02-25T12:53:52","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T07:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=4038"},"modified":"2025-03-26T21:15:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T15:45:02","slug":"kalakkadmundanthurai-tiger-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/kalakkadmundanthurai-tiger-reserve\/","title":{"rendered":"Kalakkad\u2013Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Kalakkad \u2013 Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Recently, the post-monsoon wildlife census at Kalakkad Division of Kalakkad \u2013 Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve (KMTR) commenced.<\/p>\n<h2>About Kalakkad \u2013 Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is located in the <strong>Southern Western Ghats<\/strong> in <strong>Tamil Nadu.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It includes three main sanctuaries: <strong>Kalakad Sanctuary, Mundanthurai Sanctuary, and a part of Kanyakumari Sanctuary.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is nestled between <strong>Kerala and Tamil Nadu<\/strong>, the Agastya Malai Hill Range forms the core area of the sanctuary and is part of one of the world&#8217;s 18 biodiversity hotspots.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is also known as the <strong>\u201cRiver Sanctuary\u201d,<\/strong> with as many as <strong>14 rivers originating<\/strong> from this Tiger Reserve.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Terrain:<\/strong> Undulating with several valleys and porous rocks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Vegetation of Kalakkad \u2013 Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It varies from thorny <strong>shrub jungles to lush evergreen forests.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It also consists of savannah woodlands, and grasslands; there are tea and coffee plantations within the reserve.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Flora and Fauna of Kalakkad \u2013 Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Flora:<\/strong> Important species include Sarcandra, Paphiopedulum, druryi, Hopea parviflora, Hopea utilis, Calophylum elatum, Cullenia exarillata, etc.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fauna:<\/strong> Tiger, leopard, rusty spotted cat, sloth bear, elephant, gaur, sambar, spotted deer, mouse deer, nilgiri langur, <strong>slender loris, bonnet macaque,lion tailed macaque<\/strong>, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Kalakkad \u2013 Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1:<\/strong> Which district is Kalakad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve in?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong> Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2:<\/strong> Which river flows through Kalakad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong> The Servalar River is a tributary of the Thamirabarani River and flows through the Kalakad Mundanthurai Tiger<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3:<\/strong> What is the evergreen forest?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong> An evergreen forest is a forest made up of trees that keep their leaves all year. Evergreen forests can be found in a variety of climates, including tropical, temperate, and cold.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/cities\/Madurai\/post-monsoon-wildlife-census-begins\/article69258599.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kalakkad \u2013 Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve is located in the Southern Western Ghats in Tamil Nadu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4039,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4038","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\/4038","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=4038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}