\u2705The famous Tal Chhapar blackbuck sanctuary in Churu district of Rajasthan has received a protective cover against a proposed move of the State government to reduce the size of its eco-sensitive zone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2705World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) has also taken up a major project for the conservation of raptors in the sanctuary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u25cf Reasons for the protection:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2705The Rajasthan Govt. took cognisance of reports that its area was going to be reduced to 3 sq. km under pressure from mine owners and stone crusher operators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2705Court recently ordered a \u201ccomplete prohibition\u201d on any action to reduce the wildlife sanctuary\u2019s area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u25cf About Tal Chhapar blackbuck sanctuary:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2705Host to ~4,000 blackbucks, over 40 species of raptors and more than 300 species of resident and migratory birds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2705Located 85 km from Churu in Shekhawati District<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2705Flanked by the Great India Desert, Thar<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2705Has tall grasses and is dotted with numerous small ponds where the rain water accumulates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2705Migratory birds pass through Tal Chhapar Sanctuary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2705The commonly seen migratory birds in the sanctuary are harriers, eastern imperial eagle, tawny eagle, short-toed eagle, sparrow, and little green bee-eaters, black ibis and demoiselle cranes, whereas skylarks, crested larks, ring doves, and brown doves are seen round the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2705Apart from birds, desert fox and desert cat can be spotted in the sanctuary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rajasthan sanctuary gets protection against ESZ shrinking- \u2705The famous Tal Chhapar blackbuck sanctuary in Churu district of Rajasthan has received a protective cover against a proposed move of the State government to reduce the size of its eco-sensitive zone. \u2705World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) has also taken up a major project for the conservation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":127464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1755],"tags":[1797],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-127463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upsc-important-topics","tag-upsc-daily-important-topic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127463"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127466,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127463\/revisions\/127466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127463"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=127463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}