{"id":363326,"date":"2026-05-21T17:31:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T12:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=363326"},"modified":"2026-05-21T17:31:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T12:01:30","slug":"barda-wildlife-sanctuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/barda-wildlife-sanctuary\/","title":{"rendered":"Barda Wildlife Sanctuary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-box-green\">\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>: Barda Wildlife Sanctuary is being developed as a second habitat for Asiatic lions to reduce extinction risk from Gir Forest concentration.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"red-h2-box\"><strong>About Barda Wildlife Sanctuary<\/strong><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_363328\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-363328\" style=\"width: 414px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-363328\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Source-WDPA.jpg?resize=414%2C284&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Barda Wildlife Sanctuary\" width=\"414\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Source-WDPA.jpg?resize=300%2C206&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Source-WDPA.jpg?resize=1024%2C704&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Source-WDPA.jpg?resize=768%2C528&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Source-WDPA.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 414px) 100vw, 414px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-363328\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source &#8211; WDPA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Location<\/strong>: It is located in the <strong>Barda Hills<\/strong>\u00a0near the coastal city of <strong>Porbandar in the Saurashtra region in Gujarat<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Area<\/strong>: The sanctuary spreads across<strong> 192.31 <\/strong>sq. km.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Terrain<\/strong>: The terrain of Barda is <strong>almost hilly and semi-arid<\/strong>, and it is <strong>surrounded by agricultural fields, wastelands, and forests.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Water sources:<\/strong> The sanctuary <strong>has the Bileshvary River and the Joghri River<\/strong>, along with <strong>the Khambala and Fodara dams.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Flora<\/strong>: About 650 plant and tree species are found here, <strong>including Babul, Bamboo, Amli, Jamun, Ber, Gorad, Rayan, and Dhav.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Fauna<\/strong>: The sanctuary shelters <strong>leopards, wolves, sambar deer, chinkara, hyenas, blue bulls,<\/strong> and many resident and <strong>migratory birds.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Conservation<\/strong>: The state government <strong>launched the Gir-Barda Project in 1979<\/strong> to <strong>develop Barda as the second home for Asiatic lions.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Tribes:<\/strong> Different ethnic <strong>groups such as Maldharis, Bharvads, Rabaris, and Gadhvis<\/strong> live in this area.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Significance<\/strong>: It provides ecological security for Asiatic lions by reducing the danger of keeping the entire wild population confined to Gir Forest alone.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Barda Wildlife Sanctuary is being developed as a second habitat for Asiatic lions to reduce extinction risk from Gir Forest concentration. About Barda Wildlife Sanctuary Location: It is located in the Barda Hills\u00a0near the coastal city of Porbandar in the Saurashtra region in Gujarat. Area: The sanctuary spreads across 192.31 sq. km. Terrain: The&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/barda-wildlife-sanctuary\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Barda Wildlife Sanctuary<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10401,"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-363326","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\/363326","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\/10401"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}