{"id":349014,"date":"2025-10-31T13:57:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T08:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=349014"},"modified":"2025-10-31T13:57:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T08:27:24","slug":"saranda-wildlife-sanctuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/saranda-wildlife-sanctuary\/","title":{"rendered":"Saranda Wildlife Sanctuary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News: <\/strong>The Supreme Court directed Jharkhand to notify Saranda as a wildlife sanctuary; area fixation and exclusions are under judicial review.<\/p>\n<h2>About Saranda Wildlife Sanctuary<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_349015\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-349015\" style=\"width: 451px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-349015\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Source-ResearchGate-1.jpg?resize=451%2C173&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"451\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Source-ResearchGate-1.jpg?resize=300%2C115&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Source-ResearchGate-1.jpg?resize=768%2C295&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Source-ResearchGate-1.jpg?w=1009&amp;ssl=1 1009w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 451px) 100vw, 451px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-349015\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source &#8211; ResearchGate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Location:<\/strong> It is a <strong>proposed wildlife sanctuary<\/strong> within the <strong>Saranda Forest Division<\/strong>\u00a0located in <strong>West Singhbhum district <\/strong>of\u00a0<strong>Jharkhand<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Naming: <\/strong>The <strong>Saranda<\/strong>, literally means \u201c<strong>700 hills<\/strong>\u201d in local language.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Area covered: <\/strong>The cabinet approved the notification of <strong>314.65 sq km<\/strong> of the Saranda forest as a wildlife sanctuary.<\/li>\n<li>The area has <strong>three elephant corridors<\/strong> that link Saranda to <strong>Similipal<\/strong> and <strong>Sundargarh<\/strong>, ensuring ecological connectivity.<\/li>\n<li><strong>History:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It was declared a <strong>Game Sanctuary<\/strong> in <strong>1968<\/strong> under undivided Bihar.<\/li>\n<li>In 2001, Jharkhand-govt declared &#8220;<strong>Singhbhum Elephant Reserve<\/strong>&#8220;, comprising the entire area of the Saranda Forest Division as its core zone.<\/li>\n<li>In <strong>2022<\/strong>, the <strong>National Green Tribunal<\/strong> directed Jharkhand to notify it under the <strong>Wildlife Protection Act, 1972<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>River: <\/strong>The perennial <strong>Karo<\/strong> and <strong>Koina<\/strong> rivers flow through the Saranda landscape.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Major tribes:<\/strong> It includes <strong>Ho, Munda, <\/strong><strong>Oraon<\/strong> and some primitive tribes.\n<ul>\n<li>Each and every tribal village has a <strong>sacred grove<\/strong> (<strong>Sarna<\/strong>) of about <strong>2\u2013<\/strong><strong>5 acres<\/strong> of forests.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Flora: <\/strong>The forest has dense <strong>Sal<\/strong>, along with <strong>Kusum<\/strong>, <strong>Mahua<\/strong>, mushrooms, and rare orchids.<\/li>\n<li>It supports <strong>elephants, four-horned antelope, sloth bears, flying lizards, and migratory birds<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The Supreme Court directed Jharkhand to notify Saranda as a wildlife sanctuary; area fixation and exclusions are under judicial review. About Saranda Wildlife Sanctuary Location: It is a proposed wildlife sanctuary within the Saranda Forest Division\u00a0located in West Singhbhum district of\u00a0Jharkhand. Naming: The Saranda, literally means \u201c700 hills\u201d in local language. Area covered: The&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/saranda-wildlife-sanctuary\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saranda Wildlife Sanctuary<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10393,"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],"class_list":["post-349014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-knolls","category-places-in-news","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349014","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\/10393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}