{"id":93812,"date":"2026-03-19T17:38:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=93812"},"modified":"2026-03-19T17:41:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:11:01","slug":"campbell-bay-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/campbell-bay-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Campbell Bay National Park, Location, Area, Flora, Fauna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Campbell Bay National Park, located on Great Nicobar Island, is a protected area of India established in 1992, forming part of the <\/span><b>Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and is known for its rich tropical evergreen forests, diverse flora including orchids, and unique fauna such as the Nicobar pigeon, Megapode, and giant robber crab.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Campbell Bay National Park<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Campbell Bay National Park is situated on the island of Great Nicobar, the largest of the Nicobar Islands in the eastern Indian Ocean some 190 km to the north of Sumatra.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was gazetted as a <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/national-parks-in-india\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>national park of India<\/strong><\/a> in 1992.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It forms part of the Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The park has an approximate area of some 426 km\u00b2 and is separated from the smaller Galathea National Park by a 12-km wide forest buffer zone.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Campbell Bay National Park consists of different types of <\/span><b>Orchid <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and flowering plants which attracts different species of birds making it an ideal place for bird watching.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The vegetation of this park includes the tropical evergreen forest, orchids, tree fern.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prominent Animals found in Campbell Bay National Park: <\/span><b>Megopode<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Nicobar Pigeon, Giant Robber Crab, Crab eating Macaque etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campbell Bay National Park in Great Nicobar, established in 1992, is rich in evergreen forests, orchids, and rare wildlife like Nicobar pigeon, Megapode, and robber crab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":93814,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[786],"tags":[6219],"class_list":{"0":"post-93812","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-general-studies","8":"tag-campbell-bay-national-park","9":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93812","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93812"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93817,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93812\/revisions\/93817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}