{"id":219314,"date":"2022-12-21T19:21:57","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T13:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=219314"},"modified":"2022-12-21T19:21:57","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T13:51:57","slug":"rajasthans-tal-chhapar-sanctuary-gets-protection-from-plan-to-reduce-its-size","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/rajasthans-tal-chhapar-sanctuary-gets-protection-from-plan-to-reduce-its-size\/","title":{"rendered":"Rajasthan\u2019s Tal Chhapar sanctuary gets protection from plan to reduce its size"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201cRajasthan\u2019s Tal Chhapar sanctuary gets protection from plan to reduce its size\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> published in<\/span><b> The Hindu <\/b>on<b> 20th December 2022<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tal Chhapar blackbuck sanctuary in Rajasthan has received a protective cover against a proposed move of the State government to reduce the size of its eco-sensitive zone.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is <\/b><b>Tal Chhapar Sanctuary?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tal Chhapar Sanctuary is a sanctuary located in Rajasthan.It is situated on the border of the Great Indian Thar Desert.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The sanctuary is a distinctive shelter of the most graceful Antelope seen in India, <\/span><b>\u201cthe Blackbuck\u201d.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Geography:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The sanctuary has nearly flat territory and a combined thin low lying region this has got open and wide grasslands with spread Acacia and Prosopis plants that offer it a look of a characteristic Savanna.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Fauna: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The sanctuary is host to about 4,000 blackbucks and other wild animals, over 40 species of raptors and more than 300 species of resident and migratory birds.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The raptors, which include predators and scavengers, are on top of the food chain and control the populations of small mammals, birds and reptiles as well as insects.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Issues faced by sanctuary:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The issues confronting the sanctuary include hyper-aridity, grazing pressure, the invasive weed <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prosopis juliflora<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, salt mines in the vicinity and insufficient area for its large blackbuck population.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cRajasthan\u2019s Tal Chhapar sanctuary gets protection from plan to reduce its size\u201d published in The Hindu on 20th December 2022 What is the News? Tal Chhapar blackbuck sanctuary in Rajasthan has received a protective cover against a proposed move of the State government to reduce the size&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/rajasthans-tal-chhapar-sanctuary-gets-protection-from-plan-to-reduce-its-size\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rajasthan\u2019s Tal Chhapar sanctuary gets protection from plan to reduce its size<\/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":[1566,4182,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-219314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1703849701},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219314","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=219314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}