{"id":111496,"date":"2021-04-06T11:00:37","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T11:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=111496"},"modified":"2021-04-06T11:00:38","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T11:00:38","slug":"mahendragiri-odishas-second-biosphere-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/mahendragiri-odishas-second-biosphere-reserve\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahendragiri: Odisha\u2019s Second Biosphere Reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: Which of the following statements are correct-<br>i) The Odisha government has proposed a second biosphere reserve in the southern part of the state at Mahendragiri.<br>ii)It is a hill ecosystem having rich biodiversity.<br>iii) Similipal Biosphere Reserve is Odisha\u2019s first Biosphere reserve.<\/strong><br>a) only i<br>b) only ii<br>c) i,ii<br>d) all of above<br><strong>Ans: d<br>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Odisha state government has proposed a second biosphere reserve in the southern part of the state at Mahendragiri.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Facts<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>This biosphere is located at an altitude of 1,501 metres in mountains in the Gajapati district of the state. Mahendragiri is also the second-highest peak in the state.<\/li><li>The area of the proposed Mahendragiri Biosphere Reserve is around 470,955 hectares and is spread over Gajapati and Ganjam districts in the Eastern Ghats.<\/li><li>As per a feasibility report prepared by the Biosphere Reserve Committee for the proposed project, the hill ecosystem is acting as a transitional zone between the flora and fauna of southern India and the Himalayas. This makes the region an ecological estuary of genetic diversity.<\/li><li>The feasibility report has been submitted to the government which will now be taken up by the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By kameshwar shukla<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Reference: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/news\/wildlife-biodiversity\/odisha-government-proposes-state-s-second-biosphere-reserve-at-mahendragiri-76198#:~:text=The%20Odisha%20government%20has%20proposed,hill%20ecosystem%20having%20rich%20biodiversity.&amp;text=The%20area%\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/news\/wildlife-biodiversity\/odisha-government-proposes-state-s-second-biosphere-reserve-at-mahendragiri-76198#:~:text=The%20Odisha%20government%20has%20proposed,hill%20ecosystem%20having%20rich%20biodiversity.&amp;text=The%20area%<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Which of the following statements are correct-i) The Odisha government has proposed a second biosphere reserve in the southern part of the state at Mahendragiri.ii)It is a hill ecosystem having rich biodiversity.iii) Similipal Biosphere Reserve is Odisha\u2019s first Biosphere reserve.a) only ib) only iic) i,iid) all of aboveAns: dContext The Odisha state government has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":111497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1121],"tags":[2344],"class_list":["post-111496","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\/111496","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=111496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111498,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111496\/revisions\/111498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111496"}],"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=111496"},{"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=111496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}