{"id":69599,"date":"2025-10-19T13:35:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T08:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=69599"},"modified":"2025-10-24T17:48:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T12:18:27","slug":"rakchham-chitkul-wildlife-sanctuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/rakchham-chitkul-wildlife-sanctuary\/","title":{"rendered":"Rakchham Chitkul Wildlife Sanctuary"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Rakchham Chitkul Wildlife Sanctuary Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An international bird-watching programme was recently organised at the scenic Rakchham area of the Rakchham-Chitkul Wildlife Sanctuary in Himachal Pradesh.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Rakchham Chitkul Wildlife Sanctuary<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is located in the Kinnaur district of <\/span><b>Himachal Pradesh.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is spread over an area of 30.98 sq.km.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is situated at an elevation ranging from 3200 to 5486 meters above sea level.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a part of the<\/span><b> Western Himalayan range.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is <\/span><b>surrounded by snow-capped mountains, lush green valleys,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and gushing rivers.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>perilous Lamkhanga Pass <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is one of the many trekking routes that pass through this sanctuary.\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This pass <\/span><b>connects the Himachal Pradesh<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> province of Kinnaur <\/span><b>to the Uttarakhand region of Gangotri.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unlike the climate of other sanctuaries in Himachal Pradesh, the sanctuary is <\/span><b>located in a dry zone<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, hence it <\/span><b>does not experience monsoons.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Flora<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Some of the common flora found in the sanctuary include <\/span><b>rhododendrons, oak trees, pine trees, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><b>medicinal herbs. <\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Fauna<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: It is also home to various species of wildlife, such as <\/span><b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">snow leopards, Himalayan black bears, musk deer, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and numerous bird species.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/international-bird-watching-programme-held-at-rakchham-chitkul-wildlife-sanctuary-35-species-spotted-10313885\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<p>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rakchham Chitkul Wildlife Sanctuary in Himachal Pradesh spans 30.98 sq.km in the Western Himalayas, surrounded by snow-capped peaks and green valleys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":69985,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,3330,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-69599","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-rakchham-chitkul-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\/69599","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}