Wildlife Sanctuaries (asked in exams)

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Wildlife Sanctuaries (asked in exams)

The 24 sanctuaries UPSC and UPPCS have actually named, with the question each came from.

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Tal Chhapar Wildlife Sanctuary · Rajasthan — Churu. Blackbuck grassland in the Thar; harrier roost
Jaisamand Wildlife Sanctuary · Rajasthan — Udaipur. Near UDAIPUR — around Jaisamand (Dhebar) lake, one of Asia’s largest artificial lakes
Nahargarh Wildlife Sanctuary · Rajasthan — Jaipur. Near JAIPUR — Nahargarh Biological Park
Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary · Kerala — Wayanad. Kerala — part of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve; elephants
Chinnar Wildlife Sanctuary · Kerala — Idukki. KERALA — a dry rain-shadow sanctuary; grizzled giant squirrel
Neyyar Wildlife Sanctuary · Kerala — Thiruvananthapuram. Part of the Agasthyamala Biosphere Reserve
Peppara Wildlife Sanctuary · Kerala — Thiruvananthapuram. Part of the Agasthyamala Biosphere Reserve
Shendurney Wildlife Sanctuary · Kerala — Kollam. Part of the Agasthyamala Biosphere Reserve; named after the chenkurunji tree
Pakhui Wildlife Sanctuary · Arunachal Pradesh — East Kameng. ARUNACHAL PRADESH (UPSC 2018) — also Pakke Tiger Reserve; hornbills
Manjira Wildlife Sanctuary · Telangana — Sangareddy. Telangana — mugger crocodile sanctuary on the Manjira river
Pakhal Wildlife Sanctuary · Telangana — Warangal. Telangana (earlier Andhra Pradesh) — around Pakhal lake
Dandeli Wildlife Sanctuary · Karnataka — Uttara Kannada. Karnataka — now part of the Kali Tiger Reserve; black panther, hornbills
Chandra Prabha Wildlife Sanctuary · Uttar Pradesh — Chandauli (near Varanasi). CHANDAULI district, UP — near Varanasi
Katarniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary · Uttar Pradesh — Bahraich. Established 1975 — Girwa river; gharial and Gangetic dolphin
National Chambal Wildlife Sanctuary · Madhya Pradesh — UP · MP · Rajasthan. Tri-state river sanctuary — the gharial’s main home; Ganges river dolphin
Kishanpur Wildlife Sanctuary · Uttar Pradesh — Lakhimpur Kheri. Part of the Dudhwa Tiger Reserve; swamp deer
Hastinapur Wildlife Sanctuary · Uttar Pradesh — Meerut · Bijnor. On the Ganga; holds Haiderpur wetland (Ramsar)
Karera Wildlife Sanctuary · Madhya Pradesh — Shivpuri (near Jhansi). Near JHANSI — set up for the Great Indian Bustard; denotified after the bird vanished
Indian Wild Ass Sanctuary · Gujarat — Little Rann of Kutch. GUJARAT — the Indian wild ass (khur) lives only here
Garampani Wildlife Sanctuary · Assam — Karbi Anglong. ASSAM — named after its hot springs
Vikramshila Gangetic Dolphin Sanctuary · Bihar — Bhagalpur (Sultanganj–Kahalgaon). India’s only sanctuary for the Gangetic dolphin — on the Ganga at SULTANGANJ–Kahalgaon, Bihar
Kaundinya Wildlife Sanctuary · Andhra Pradesh — Chittoor. Andhra Pradesh — the state’s only elephant sanctuary
Gundla Brahmeswaram Wildlife Sanctuary · Andhra Pradesh — Nandyal · Prakasam. Andhra Pradesh — Nallamala hills, between the Krishna and the Penna
Gahirmatha Marine Sanctuary · Odisha — Kendrapara. Odisha — the world’s largest mass-nesting beach of the olive ridley (arribada)

Asked in exams

UPSC 2020Hard-ground barasingha → Kanha (Tal Chhapar was a distractor)
UPSC 2006Jaisamand → Udaipur (nearby town)
UPSC 2006Nahargarh → Jaipur
UPPCSChinnar Wildlife Sanctuary is in → Kerala
UPSC 2019Neyyar, Peppara, Shendurney + KMTR → Agasthyamala BR
UPSC 2019Same set → Agasthyamala BR
UPSC 2018Pakhui Wildlife Sanctuary is in → Arunachal Pradesh
UPPCSPakhui → Arunachal Pradesh
UPSC 2007Distractor in “which is known as Top Slip?” (answer: Indira Gandhi WLS/NP)
UPPCSPakhal → Andhra Pradesh (match list; now Telangana)
UPSC 2007Distractor in “which is in the Bastar region?” (answer: Indravati)
UPSC 2006Chandra Prabha → Varanasi
UPPCSChandraprabha is in which district? → Chandauli
UPPCSUP sanctuary established in 1975 → Katarniaghat
UPPCSOption in the 1975 question (Chambal)
UPPCSOption in the 1975 question
UPSC 2006Kerera → Jhansi
UPPCSWhere is the wild ass sanctuary? → Gujarat
UPPCSGarampani → Assam (match list)
UPPCSGanga dolphin sanctuary is at → Sultanganj
UPSC 2019Distractor in the Agasthyamala question
UPSC 2002Coast famous for olive ridley nesting → Odisha

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