14 Nov 2024        12:20:31 pm

Environmental Ecology

Asola Bhatti Wildlife Sanctuary

Tags : Asola Bhatti Wildlife Sanctuary

Topic: Protected Areas

Why in the news?

• The Delhi High Court directed local authorities to shift all the monkeys of the Capital to the Asola Bhatti Wildlife Sanctuary on priority.
• A Bench of Chief Justice Manmohan and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela, which was hearing a PIL plea moved by the NGO Dhananjay Sanjogta Foundation on the issue of stray dogs and monkeys attacking differently-abled people, said stray animals cannot be allowed to take over the city.

Source: The Hindu 

About Asola Bhatti Wildlife Sanctuary:

• It covers an area of 32.71 sq km on the Southern Delhi Ridge of the Aravalli hill range on the Delhi-Haryana border.
  • It lies in Southern Delhi and the northern parts of Faridabad and Gurugram districts of Haryana state.
• It is a part of the Sariska-Delhi Wildlife Corridor, which runs from the Sariska Tiger Reserve in Rajasthan to Delhi Ridge.
• Vegetation:
  • As per Champion & Seth (1968), the vegetation falls under the Northern Tropical Thorn Forests type.
  • The native plants exhibit xerophytic adaptations such as thorny appendages, wax-coated, succulent, and tomentose leaves. 
• Its climate is mainly influenced by its remote inland position and prevalence of air of continental character, which is characterized by extreme summer heat alternating with great winter cold.
• Flora: 
  • Prosopis juliflora is the dominant exotic species and Diospyros montana is the dominant native species in the sanctuary.
• Fauna: 
  • Golden Jackals, Striped-Hyenas, Indian crested-Porcupines, Civets, Jungle Cats, Snakes, Monitor Lizards, Mongoose etc. are commonly found here.

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