{"id":7872,"date":"2022-11-23T10:15:41","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T04:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7872"},"modified":"2025-03-28T23:30:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T18:00:52","slug":"arittapatti-and-meenakshipuram-villages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/arittapatti-and-meenakshipuram-villages\/","title":{"rendered":"Arittapatti and Meenakshipuram Villages"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It aims to prevent the loss of biodiversity and preserve the cultural and architectural heritage, the government, as recommended by the Tamil Nadu Biodiversity Board, has declared\u00a0<strong>Arittapatti a biodiversity heritage site.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The site, comprising 139.63 hectares in Arittapatti village (in Melur taluk) and 53.58 hectares in Meenakshipuram village (Madurai East taluk), will be known as the Arittapatti Biodiversity Heritage Site.<\/li>\n<li>Arittapatti, known for its ecological and historical significance, houses around 250 species of birds, including three important raptors \u2014\u00a0<strong>Laggar Falcon (Falco jugger), Shaheen Falcon (Falco peregrinus) and Bonelli\u2019s Eagle (Aquila fasciata).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is also home to wildlife such as the\u00a0<strong>Indian Pangolin (Manis crassicaudata), Python (Python molurus) and Slender Loris (Loris spp).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The area is surrounded by a chain of seven hillocks or\u00a0<strong>inselbergs,\u00a0<\/strong>that serve as a watershed, charging\u00a0<strong>\u201c72 lakes, 200 natural springs and three check-dams\u201d.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>Anaikondan tank<\/strong>, built during the reign of the Pandiyan kings in the 16th century, is one of them.<\/li>\n<li>The site also features various megalithic structures, Tamil Brahmi Inscriptions, Jain Beds and 2200-year-old rock-cut temples adding to its historical value.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/energy-and-environment\/in-arittapatti-tamil-nadu-gets-its-first-biodiversity-heritage-site\/article66169025.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Hindu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arittapatti and Meenakshipuram villages in Madurai district were declared biodiversity heritage site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7873,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7872","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\/7872","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=7872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}