{"id":303999,"date":"2024-07-10T18:57:39","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T13:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=303999"},"modified":"2024-07-10T18:57:39","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T13:27:39","slug":"biligiri-rangaswamy-temple-brt-tiger-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/biligiri-rangaswamy-temple-brt-tiger-reserve\/","title":{"rendered":"Biligiri Rangaswamy Temple (BRT) Tiger Reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source- This post on the Biligiri Rangaswamy Temple (BRT) Tiger Reserve<\/strong> has been created based on the article “BR Hills-bound vehicles to pay token green tax”<\/a> published in \u201cEconomic Times\u201d on 10 July 2024.<\/p>\n

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Why in the news?<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The Karnataka Forest Department has recently started collecting a green tax from vehicles entering BR Hills through BRT Tiger Reserve.<\/p>\n

About Biligiri Rangaswamy Temple (BRT) Tiger Reserve<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Aspects<\/strong><\/td>\nDescription<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
About<\/td>\nThe BRT Tiger Reserve is located in the Chamarajanagar district of Karnataka State.
\nThe reserve is named after the “Biligiri,” a white rocky cliff that has a temple of Lord Vishnu, locally known as Rangaswamy.
\nThe BRT Wildlife Sanctuary was declared a Tiger Reserve in 2011.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Gographical Location<\/td>\nThis unique bio-geographical entity is situated between the Western Ghats and the Eastern Ghats in South India.
\nIt was established as a Wildlife Sanctuary in 1974.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vegetation<\/td>\nThe forests are mainly of the dry deciduous type.
\nThey are interspersed with moist deciduous, semi-evergreen, evergreen, and shola patches at varying altitudes.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Flora<\/td>\nMajor species include Anogeissus latifolia, Dalbergia paniculata, Grewia teliaefolia, Terminalia alata, Terminalia bellirica, and Terminalia paniculata.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fauna<\/td>\nThe Tiger Reserve is home to a variety of animals including tigers, elephants, leopards, wild dogs, bisons, sambars, spotted deer, barking deer, four-horned antelopes, sloth bears, wild boars, common langurs, bonnet macaques, and various reptiles and birds.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

UPSC Syllabus: Environment<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source- This post on the Biligiri Rangaswamy Temple (BRT) Tiger Reserve has been created based on the article “BR Hills-bound vehicles to pay token green tax” published in \u201cEconomic Times\u201d on 10 July 2024. Why in the news? The Karnataka Forest Department has recently started collecting a green tax from vehicles entering BR Hills through… Continue reading Biligiri Rangaswamy Temple (BRT) Tiger Reserve<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"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],"tags":[11872,10596],"class_list":["post-303999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-economic-times","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303999","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\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}