{"id":95722,"date":"2026-03-31T13:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=95722"},"modified":"2026-03-31T13:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:16:12","slug":"navegaon-nagzira-tiger-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/navegaon-nagzira-tiger-reserve\/","title":{"rendered":"Navegaon-Nagzira Tiger Reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Navegaon-Nagzira Tiger Reserve Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Navegaon Nagzira Tiger Reserve (NNTR) in Maharashtra\u2019s Gondia will get control of the buffer notified area in its vicinity from April 1.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Navegaon-Nagzira Tiger Reserve<\/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 Maharashtra.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is located in the heart of the central Indian Tiger Landscape, which contributes almost 1\/6 of the total tiger population of the country.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was declared a tiger reserve in 2013; it is the <\/span><b>fifth tiger reserve<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Maharashtra.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It comprises the notified areas of <\/span><b>Nawegaon National Park, Nawegaon Wildlife Sanctuary, Nagzira Wildlife Sanctuary<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, New Nagzira Wildlife Sanctuary, and <\/span><b>Koka Wildlife Sanctuary.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has linkages with <\/span><b>Kanha, Pench, and <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/tadoba-andhari-tiger-reserve\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tadoba Tiger Reserves<\/a>.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Topography:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The topography is undulating, and the highest point, viz. \u2018Zenda Pahad\u2019, is around 702 m above Mean Sea Level.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Vegetation:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Southern Tropical Dry Deciduous<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Flora:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> There are 364 species of plants, and the major trees are: Terminalia tomentosa, Lagerstroemia parviflora, Anogeisus lotifolia, Pterocarpus marsupium, Diospyrus melanoxylon, Ougeinia oogenesis, etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Fauna:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The major wild animals are: Tiger, Panther, Small Indian Civet, Palm Civet, Wolf, Jackal, Wild Dog, Sloth Bear, Ratel, Common Giant Flying Squirrel, Gaur, Sambar, Chital, Four Horned Antelope, Mouse Deer, and Pangolin.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/theprint.in\/india\/navegaon-nagzira-tiger-reserve-to-get-control-of-buffer-notified-area-from-apr-1\/2892481\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Navegaon-Nagzira Tiger Reserve in Maharashtra to gain buffer area control from April 1, boosting conservation, habitat protection and tiger population growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":95749,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6482,246,3815,21],"class_list":{"0":"post-95722","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-navegaon-nagzira-tiger-reserve","9":"tag-prelims-current-affairs","10":"tag-prelims-pointer","11":"tag-prelims-pointers","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95722","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95722"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95766,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95722\/revisions\/95766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}