{"id":6707,"date":"2023-03-27T06:17:38","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T00:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=6707"},"modified":"2025-03-27T16:30:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T11:00:50","slug":"bibhutibhusan-wildlife-sanctuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/bibhutibhusan-wildlife-sanctuary\/","title":{"rendered":"Bibhutibhusan Wildlife Sanctuary"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Bibhutibhusan Wildlife Sanctuary:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Bibhutibhusan Wildlife Sanctuary, also known as Parmadan Forest is an animal sanctuary in the North 24 Parganas district in <strong>West Bengal.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is situated on the banks of <strong>river Ichamati.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Key facts about the Sundarban Tiger Reserve<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The Sundarbans is located on the delta of the <strong>Ganga, Brahmaputra and Meghna<\/strong> rivers in the Bay of Bengal.<\/li>\n<li>In 1973 it was declared a tiger reserve <strong>under Project Tiger.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is a part of the world\u2019s largest delta and home to the largest <strong>mangrove forests.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Flora:<\/strong> The vegetation of the area is moist tropical forests and tidal forests.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fauna:<\/strong> It is home to Royal Bengal Tiger, Estuarine Crocodile, Gangetic Dolphin, Water Monitor Lizard etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>\u00a0\u00a0What is Project Tiger?\u00a0<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a\u00a0 <strong>tiger conservation programme launched in April 1973<\/strong> by the Government of India during Prime Minister Indira Gandhi&#8217;s tenure.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Aim:<\/strong> Ensuring a viable population of Bengal tigers in their natural habitats, protecting them from extinction, and preserving areas of biological importance as a natural heritage<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the wildlife sanctuary?<\/h3>\n<p>An area where animal habitats and their surroundings are shielded from any kind of disturbance is known as a wildlife sanctuary. Animal capturing, killing, and poaching are outright forbidden in these areas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/kolkata\/sundarbans-get-90-spotted-deer-from-parmadan-forest\/articleshow\/99021559.cms?from=mdr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Sundarbans get 90 spotted deer from Parmadan forest<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bibhutibhusan Wildlife Sanctuary, also known as Parmadan Forest is an animal sanctuary in West Bengal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6708,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6707","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\/6707","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=6707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}