{"id":87164,"date":"2020-02-19T18:15:55","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T12:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=13837"},"modified":"2020-02-19T18:15:55","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T12:45:55","slug":"mukurthi-national-park-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/mukurthi-national-park-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Mukurthi National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<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.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Mukurthi National Park:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Location: <\/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><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><li><strong>Keystone Species:<\/strong>The<strong> <\/strong>main reason behind establishing a national park in the place was to protect the Nilgiri Tahr which is a Keystone species.<\/li><li>The park also has the distinction of being a UNESCO World Heritage Site because it is part of the Western Ghats.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional information:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Fire Line:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><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><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Keystone Species:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><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><li>Disappearance of such species may lead to significant ecosystem change or dysfunction which may have knock on effects on a broader scale.<\/li><\/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: 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. Type:It is characterised&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/mukurthi-national-park-3\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mukurthi National Park<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9326,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[4911],"class_list":["post-87164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-mukurthi-national-park","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704607030},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87164","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\/9326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}