{"id":4501,"date":"2023-01-06T10:11:55","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T04:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=4501"},"modified":"2025-03-27T00:44:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T19:14:04","slug":"nilgiri-biosphere-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/nilgiri-biosphere-reserve\/","title":{"rendered":"Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Elephants<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The study said that human settlements and crop cultivation have hindered the movement of the elephants, keeping them confined to the hilly areas, considered sub-optimal habitats.<\/li>\n<li>IUCN status of Elephant: <strong>Endangered<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Wildlife(protection) act 1972: Schedule 1<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Key facts about NBR<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It harbours a wide spectrum of ecosystem types such as <strong>tropical evergreen forests,<\/strong> Montane <strong>sholas<\/strong> and grasslands, <strong>semi-evergreen forests<\/strong>, moist deciduous forests, dry deciduous forests and <strong>thorn forests<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The major part of the core areas spread over Kerala and Tamil Nadu States,<\/li>\n<li>This range of ecosystem occurs from hilly terrain to the meadows extending from 300 to 2670 m constituting an excellent habitat for the flora, fauna and other microbial forms.<\/li>\n<li>The varied habitats of the NBR house a sizeable number of species of animals and plants including a large number of endemics having special relevance to conservation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fauna: <\/strong>Animals like Nilgiri tahr, Nilgiri langur, slender loris, blackbuck, tiger, gaur, Indian elephant and marten are found here.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tribal Population: <\/strong>Tribal groups like the Todas, Kotas, Irullas, Kurumbas, Paniyas, Adiyans, Edanadan Chettis, Cholanaickens, Allar, Malayan, etc., are native to the reserve.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Protected Areas<\/strong> within the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve are\n<ul>\n<li>The Mudumalai Wildlife Sanctuary, Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary, Bandipur National Park, Nagarhole National Park, Mukurthi National Park and Silent Valley.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) What is Project Elephant?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>It is a centrally sponsored scheme which was launched in February 1992 for the protection of elephants, their habitats and corridors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/energy-and-environment\/endangered-asian-elephant-has-lost-most-of-its-optimal-habitat-in-nilgiri-reserve-study\/article66343549.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Endangered Asian elephant has lost most of its optimal habitat in Nilgiri Reserve: Study<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve harbours a wide spectrum of ecosystem types.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4502,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4501","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\/4501","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=4501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}