{"id":348847,"date":"2025-10-29T15:25:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T09:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=348847"},"modified":"2025-10-29T15:26:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T09:56:49","slug":"bondla-wildlife-sanctuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/bondla-wildlife-sanctuary\/","title":{"rendered":"Bondla Wildlife Sanctuary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>News:<\/strong> Goa\u2019s only zoo in Bondla Wildlife Sanctuary will soon get new animals after 12 years, including a barking deer and two sloth bears.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\">About Bondla Wildlife Sanctuary<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7058\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7058\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyloaded wp-image-7058\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/naparks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Map-1024x576.webp?resize=474%2C267\" alt=\"Bondla Wildlife Sanctuary\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" data-ll-status=\"loaded\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7058\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: naparks.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Location:<\/strong> It is located in<strong> Ponda, Goa.\u00a0 <\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">It is <strong>nested in the foothills of the Western Ghats.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">It was established in <strong>1969<\/strong> <strong>as a protected area<\/strong> and<strong> later became a sanctuary.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Size:<\/strong> It covers an <strong>area of about 7.98 km.<\/strong>\u00a0and is <strong>situated at an elevation of around 3,000 feet.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>River flowing through it:<\/strong> The <strong>Rangado River<\/strong> borders the sanctuary on the<strong> east<\/strong>, while the <strong>Madhel River<\/strong> flows along its <strong>northern edge.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Vegetation:<\/strong> The sanctuary\u2019s vegetation is <strong>dominated by thick, moist deciduous plants.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Flora:<\/strong>\u00a0 The <strong>dominant trees<\/strong> in this Sanctuary are <strong>Terminalia crenulata ( Matti, the state tree of Goa) and Rosewood.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Fauna:<\/strong> This biodiversity supports many animal species, including <strong>Indian bison (gaur), panther, leopard, sambar deer, wild boar,<\/strong> Wild boar, Porcupine, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Goa\u2019s only zoo in Bondla Wildlife Sanctuary will soon get new animals after 12 years, including a barking deer and two sloth bears. About Bondla Wildlife Sanctuary Location: It is located in Ponda, Goa.\u00a0 It is nested in the foothills of the Western Ghats. It was established in 1969 as a protected area and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/bondla-wildlife-sanctuary\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bondla Wildlife Sanctuary<\/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":[1566,4182,12039,11211],"tags":[11872,11074],"class_list":["post-348847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-knolls","category-places-in-news","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-the-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348847","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=348847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}