{"id":75304,"date":"2021-01-04T17:07:41","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T11:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=75304"},"modified":"2021-01-04T17:08:59","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T11:38:59","slug":"mukurthi-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/mukurthi-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Mukurthi National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News:<\/strong>Tamil Nadu government are constructing fire lines\u2019 or \u2018fire breaks\u2019, in the Mukurthi National Park(MNP) ahead of summer and peak fire season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>About Mukurthi National Park:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Location:\u00a0<\/strong>It is located in the northwest corner of Tamil Nadu in the Western Ghats mountain range.It is also a part of Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Type:<\/strong>It is characterised by montane grasslands and shrublands interspersed with sholas in a high altitude area of high rainfall, near-freezing temperatures and high winds.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Keystone Species:<\/strong>The<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>main reason behind establishing a national park in the place was to protect the Nilgiri Tahr which is a Keystone species.<\/li>\n<li>The park also has the distinction of being a UNESCO World Heritage Site because it is part of the Western Ghats.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Download\u00a0 :-<a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-mains-syllabus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Free upsc mains syllabus<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Additional information:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>About Fire Line:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an artificially formed break in foliage or forest cover to control the spread of wildfires by limiting the amount of combustible vegetation available.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>About Keystone Species:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>keystone species is a species that plays an essential role in the structure, functioning or productivity of a habitat or ecosystem at a defined level (habitat, soil, seed dispersal, etc).<\/li>\n<li>Disappearance of such species may lead to significant ecosystem change or dysfunction which may have knock on effects on a broader scale.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:Tamil Nadu government are constructing fire lines\u2019 or \u2018fire breaks\u2019, in the Mukurthi National Park(MNP) ahead of summer and peak fire season. Facts: About Mukurthi National Park: Location:\u00a0It is located in the northwest corner of Tamil Nadu in the Western Ghats mountain range.It is also a part of Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve. Type:It is characterised by&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/mukurthi-national-park\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mukurthi National Park<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":106,"cached_at":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75304","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}