{"id":266492,"date":"2023-10-27T18:38:20","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T13:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=266492"},"modified":"2023-10-27T18:38:20","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T13:08:20","slug":"anamalai-tiger-reserve-panel-assesses-progress-of-tiger-rewilding-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/anamalai-tiger-reserve-panel-assesses-progress-of-tiger-rewilding-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Anamalai Tiger Reserve panel assesses progress of tiger rewilding project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201c<\/b><b>ATR panel assesses progress of tiger rewilding project<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>\u201cThe Hindu\u201d on 27th October 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>Why in the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A committee visited the Anamalai Tiger Reserve to check the progress of the Forest Department&#8217;s first Tiger rewilding project.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is Tiger Rewilding?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rewilding involves the reintroduction of a captive tiger cub into the wild when it becomes clear that the tiger cub is capable of surviving in the jungle independently.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Where is <\/b><b>Anamalai Tiger Reserve?<\/b><\/h2>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Specification<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Details<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>State<\/b><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tamil Nadu<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Located in<\/b><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">South Western Ghats<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Surrounded by<\/b><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Parambikulum Tiger Reserve on the East, Chinnar Wildlife Sanctuary and Eravikulam National Park on the South Western side.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Declared as a Tiger Reserve in<\/b><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2007<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Forest Type<\/b><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It supports diverse forest types: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wet evergreen forests, semi evergreen forests, moist deciduous, dry deciduous, dry thorn and shola forests<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Flora<\/b><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Around 2500 species are found<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Fauna<\/b><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tiger, Asiatic elephant, Nilgiri Tahr, Lion Tailed Macaque, Great Indian Hornbill among others.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is also home to 15 of 16 species of birds endemic to the Western Ghats.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Tribes<\/b><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The reserve is home to six tribes: Kadars, Malasars, Pulaiyars, Mudugars and Eravallan.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<figure id=\"attachment_266533\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-266533\" style=\"width: 244px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-266533\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Location-of-the-Anamalai-Tiger-Reserve-new-locations-for-Latidens-salimalii-and-1.png?resize=244%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Anamalai Tiger Reserve\" width=\"244\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Location-of-the-Anamalai-Tiger-Reserve-new-locations-for-Latidens-salimalii-and-1.png?resize=244%2C300&amp;ssl=1 244w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Location-of-the-Anamalai-Tiger-Reserve-new-locations-for-Latidens-salimalii-and-1.png?resize=833%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 833w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Location-of-the-Anamalai-Tiger-Reserve-new-locations-for-Latidens-salimalii-and-1.png?resize=768%2C944&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Location-of-the-Anamalai-Tiger-Reserve-new-locations-for-Latidens-salimalii-and-1.png?w=850&amp;ssl=1 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 244px) 100vw, 244px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-266533\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source- Research Gate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b>UPSC Syllabus Topic:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> National Parks\/Wildlife Sanctuaries <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cATR panel assesses progress of tiger rewilding project\u201d published in \u201cThe Hindu\u201d on 27th October 2023 Why in the News? A committee visited the Anamalai Tiger Reserve to check the progress of the Forest Department&#8217;s first Tiger rewilding project. What is Tiger Rewilding? Rewilding involves the reintroduction&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/anamalai-tiger-reserve-panel-assesses-progress-of-tiger-rewilding-project\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Anamalai Tiger Reserve panel assesses progress of tiger rewilding project<\/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":[1566,4182,1],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-266492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-uncategorized","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":102,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1703662013},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266492","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=266492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}