{"id":6419,"date":"2022-12-08T11:41:34","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T06:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=6419"},"modified":"2025-03-27T14:44:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T09:14:46","slug":"koundinya-wildlife-sanctuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/koundinya-wildlife-sanctuary\/","title":{"rendered":"Koundinya Wildlife Sanctuary"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Koundinya Wildlife Sanctuary:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is located in Palamner &#8211; Kuppam forest ranges of Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh.<\/li>\n<li>This Sanctuary comes under <strong>Project elephant<\/strong> &#8211; a Country wide Elephant Conservation Project taken up by Government of India.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>only home for Asiatic elephants in the State of Andhra Pradesh.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Flora<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Plants like Albizzia amara, Ficus glomerata, Zizyphus xylocarpus, Gymnosporia Montana, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fauna<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Reptiles like Common cobra, Rat snake, Indian rock python, Forest calotes, Skinks, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Birds like Partidges, quails, storks, Cotton teal, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Mammals like Indian Elephant, Panther, Sloth bear, Wild boar, Chowsingha, Nilgai, Hyena, Jackal, etc.<\/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><strong>PROJECT ELEPHANT<\/strong> was launched by the Government of India in the year 1992 as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme to protect elephants, their habitat &amp; corridors, address issues of man-animal conflict and Welfare of captive elephants.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/andhra-pradesh\/koundinya-sanctuary-in-andhra-pradesh-awaits-jumbo-romance-as-all-female-herd-from-tn-enters-chittoor\/article66234924.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Hindu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Koundinya Wildlife Sanctuary is the only home for Asiatic elephants in Andhra Pradesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6420,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6419","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\/6419","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=6419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}