{"id":215517,"date":"2022-11-23T19:19:52","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T13:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=215517"},"modified":"2022-11-24T10:42:21","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T05:12:21","slug":"tamil-nadu-gets-its-first-biodiversity-heritage-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/tamil-nadu-gets-its-first-biodiversity-heritage-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Arittapatti Biodiversity Heritage Site: Tamil Nadu gets its first biodiversity heritage site"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cTamil Nadu gets its first biodiversity heritage site<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> The Hindu on 23rd November 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Tamil Nadu government has declared the first biodiversity heritage site in the State named <\/span><b>Arittapatti Biodiversity Heritage Site.<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>About Arittapatti Biodiversity Heritage Site<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Arittapatti Biodiversity Heritage Site comprises Arittapatti village and Meenakshipuram village in Tamil Nadu.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Ecological significance: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The site houses around 250 species of birds, including three important raptors \u2014 the Laggar Falcon, the Shaheen Falcon and Bonelli\u2019s Eagle.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 It is also home to wildlife such as the Indian pangolin, slender loris and pythons.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Historical Significance:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The area is surrounded by a chain of seven hillocks or inselbergs that serve as a watershed charging 72 lakes, 200 natural springs and three check-dams.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 The Anaikondan tank built during the reign of the Pandiyan kings in the 16th century, is one of them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The site also features various megalithic structures, Tamil Brahmi Inscriptions, Jain Beds and 2200-year-old rock-cut temples adding to its historical value.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is a Biodiversity Heritage Site?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/four-more-biodiversity-heritage-sites-for-karnataka\/\"><b>Click Here to read<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cTamil Nadu gets its first biodiversity heritage site\u201d published in The Hindu on 23rd November 2022. What is the News? The Tamil Nadu government has declared the first biodiversity heritage site in the State named Arittapatti Biodiversity Heritage Site. About Arittapatti Biodiversity Heritage Site Arittapatti Biodiversity Heritage&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/tamil-nadu-gets-its-first-biodiversity-heritage-site\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Arittapatti Biodiversity Heritage Site: Tamil Nadu gets its first biodiversity heritage site<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-215517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704927392},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}