{"id":92950,"date":"2026-03-16T12:41:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T07:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=92950"},"modified":"2026-03-16T16:20:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T10:50:50","slug":"megamalai-wildlife-sanctuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/megamalai-wildlife-sanctuary\/","title":{"rendered":"Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently,<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">nine species were recently discovered during a faunal survey by Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) at Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Location:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is located in the <\/span><b>state of Tamil Nadu.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This wildlife sanctuary serves as a buffer zone for the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/periyar-tiger-reserve-ptr\/\" target=\"_blank\">Periyar Tiger Reserve<\/a><\/strong> in Kerala, as it is <\/span><b>situated on the border of Tamilnadu and Kerala.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is home to a diverse variety of flora and fauna <\/span><b>shrubs and evergreen forests<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to mammals.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Vegetation:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It mainly consists of <\/span><b>scrub forest<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (at the foothills) to dense <\/span><b>evergreen forest<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>shola grasslands<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (at the top).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Flora: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Banyan Tree,<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Syzygium zeylanicum, Nothopegia vajravelui, Memecylon flavescens, Symplocos oligandra, Symplocos wynadense, Meiogyne ramarowii,<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Fauna:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The sanctuary is home to elephants, tigers, leopards, Nilgiri tahr, gaurs, spotted deer, barking deer, sambar deer, wild boar, porcupine, Nilgiri langur, lion-tailed macaque.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>wood snake is endemic<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to the Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/chennai\/researchers-discover-9-new-species-at-megamalai-wildlife-sanctuary-in-southern-western-ghats\/articleshow\/129594544.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TOI<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary is located in the state of Tamil Nadu. 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