{"id":109773,"date":"2021-03-08T11:57:50","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T11:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=109773"},"modified":"2021-03-08T11:57:51","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T11:57:51","slug":"simlipal-forest-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/simlipal-forest-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Simlipal forest fire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: Simlipal forest reserve area that has witnessed week long fire is situated in which Indian state?<br><\/strong>(a) Odisha<br>(b) Karnataka<br>(c) West Bengal<br>(d) Assam<br><strong>Answer: (a)<br>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar has ordered officers to take immediate action on the forest fires raging in Simlipal Tiger Reserve.<\/li><li>A forest fire started in Simlipal in February and has been raging for nearly a week now.<\/li><li>The forest area witness\u2019s frequent fires during the dry weather conditions, generally, with the onset of summers and towards the end of autumn.<\/li><li>The last incident of a major forest fire was reported in 2015.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Simlipal Biosphere Reserve:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Similipal derived from \u2018Simul\u2019 (silk cotton) tree, is a national park and a tiger reserve situated in the northern part of Odisha\u2019s Mayurbhanj district.<\/li><li>Similipal and the adjoining areas, comprising 5,569 sq km, was declared a biosphere reserve by the Government of India on June 22, 1994, and lies in the eastern end of the eastern ghat.<\/li><li>Similipal is the 7th largest national park in India.<\/li><li>The area is also part of the UNESCO World Network of Biosphere Reserves since 2009.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By-Amar Mani Upadhyay<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/simplipal-forest-fire-explained-7213375\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/simplipal-forest-fire-explained-7213375\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Simlipal forest reserve area that has witnessed week long fire is situated in which Indian state?(a) Odisha(b) Karnataka(c) West Bengal(d) AssamAnswer: (a)Related facts: Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar has ordered officers to take immediate action on the forest fires raging in Simlipal Tiger Reserve. A forest fire started in Simlipal in February and has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":109774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1121],"tags":[2344],"class_list":["post-109773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nnews","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109775,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109773\/revisions\/109775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}