{"id":6861,"date":"2023-03-31T12:04:39","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T06:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=6861"},"modified":"2025-03-28T15:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T09:57:08","slug":"marine-national-park-gulf-of-kutch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/marine-national-park-gulf-of-kutch\/","title":{"rendered":"Marine National Park (Gulf of Kutch)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Gulf of Kutch National Park:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is India\u2019s first Marine Wildlife Sanctuary and first Marine National Park which were created in the Gulf of Kutch in 1980 and 1982, respectively.<\/li>\n<li>It is an archipelago of 42 tropical islands along the northern coast of Jamnagar district and the southern coast of Kutch.<\/li>\n<li>Some of the finest coral reef fringe islands are found at <strong>Pirotan, Narala, Ajad and Positara, <\/strong>with species of hard and soft coral.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fauna:<\/strong> There are 7 species of mangrove which are breeding grounds for colonies of near-threatened species of birds such as the Painted Stork, Darter and <strong>Black-necked Ibis<\/strong>. Endangered Sea Turtles like the <strong>Green Sea, Oliver Riddley &amp; Leather Back<\/strong> can also be found here.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the Gulf?<\/h3>\n<p>The Gulf is a portion of the sea that is almost surrounded by land except one narrow opening. Gulfs are formed when a giant rock collapses or when a piece of land sinks. This causes a big indentation in the area, and the water eventually fills it up. Gulfs are also formed through a natural process of erosion.<br \/>\n<strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/cities\/ahmedabad\/cag-tata-chemicals-open-channel-may-affect-national-park-ecosystem-8529280\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>CAG: Tata Chemicals\u2019 open channel may affect the national park ecosystem<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gulf of Kutch is India\u2019s first Marine Wildlife Sanctuary and first Marine National Park which were created in the Gulf of Kutch in 1980 and 1982.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6862,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6861","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\/6861","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=6861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}