{"id":49619,"date":"2025-06-09T15:08:51","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T09:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=49619"},"modified":"2025-06-09T17:36:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T12:06:35","slug":"tamhini-wildlife-sanctuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/tamhini-wildlife-sanctuary\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamhini Wildlife Sanctuary"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Tamhini Wildlife Sanctuary Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Maharashtra forest department recently partnered with Microsoft and the Centre for Youth Development and Activities (CYDA), Pune, to address socio-ecological challenges in the Tamhini Wildlife Sanctuary.<\/p>\n<h2>About Tamhini Wildlife Sanctuary<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a protected forest area located in the\u00a0<strong>Western Ghats near Pune, Maharashtra.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It covers an area of 49.62 sq.km.<\/li>\n<li>It has been carved out by taking 12 compartments of reserved forest from the Paund and Sinhgad ranges in the Pune forest division, while 8 compartments belong to Mangaon range in the Roha division in Thane.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vegetation<\/strong>: It is made up of\u00a0<strong>evergreen forests, semi-evergreen forests,<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>most deciduous<\/strong>\u00a0forests.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Flora<\/strong>: Species like\u00a0<strong>teak, bamboo, Ain<\/strong>, Shisham, mango, and Jamun are found in this area.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fauna<\/strong>:\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Indian giant squirrels, barking deer,<\/strong>\u00a0Indian\u00a0<strong>pangolins<\/strong>, Indian civets, and wild boars are some of the many species found in this region.<\/li>\n<li>In terms of avifauna population, species like the\u00a0<strong>Malabar whistling thrush,<\/strong>\u00a0crested serpent eagle, grey junglefowl, golden oriole, and Indian pitta are some of the residents.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Tamhini Wildlife Sanctuary FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1:<\/strong>\u00a0Where is the Tamhini Wildlife Sanctuary located?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0Western Ghats, Maharashtra<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2:<\/strong>\u00a0What is the approximate area covered by Tamhini Wildlife Sanctuary?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a049.62 sq.km<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3:<\/strong>\u00a0Tamhini Wildlife Sanctuary lies near which major city?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0Pune<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>:<a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/cities\/pune\/maharashtra-forest-dept-partners-microsoft-pune-ngo-eco-restoration-tamhini-wildlife-sanctuary-10052106\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u00a0IE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tamhini Wildlife Sanctuary, near Pune in the Western Ghats, is a protected forest area rich in biodiversity, scenic waterfalls, and lush green landscapes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":49630,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,766,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-49619","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-prelims-pointers","9":"tag-tamhini-wildlife-sanctuary","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49619","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}