{"id":8028,"date":"2016-02-05T11:20:42","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T11:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kashmirhills.com\/?page_id=8028"},"modified":"2016-02-05T11:20:42","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T11:20:42","slug":"nandini-wildlife-sanctuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/emaven.co.in\/kashmir-hill\/nandini-wildlife-sanctuary\/","title":{"rendered":"Nandini Wildlife Sanctuary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Located 28 kms from Jammu, Nandini Wildlife Sanctuary is characterized by stunning locale and varied topography. The sanctuary derives its name from Nandini village. The region play hosts to a large number of rare and endangered species of mammals and birds. It supports 8 species of mammals and a wide variety of bird species. Much acclaim has been accorded to the Nandini Wildlife Sanctuary, famous for its diversity of wildlife and best known for wonderful species of pheasants.<\/p>\n<p>Spread over an area of 34 sq. km, the sanctuary is rich in fauna and provides refuge to a wide variety of mammals. The main species are leopard, wild boar, rhesus monkey, bharal, grey langur etc.<\/p>\n<p>Like the Overa wildlife sanctuary, the Nandini, too, is the natural habitat for a significant population of pheasants. Among the other avifauna Indian mynah, blue rock pigeon, peafowl, red jungle fowl, chir pheasants, chakor etc.<\/p>\n<p>The nearest airport from Nandini Wildlife Sanctuary is in Jammu, which is 26 kms away. The nearest railhead is also Jammu which is 28 kms away.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-family: Oswald, sans-serif; \">Wildlife Sanctuaries<\/h2>\n<div class=\"two\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kashmirhills.com\/wildlife\/kashmir-wildlife-sanctuaries\/dachigam-national-park\/\">Dachigam National Park<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kashmirhills.com\/wildlife\/kashmir-wildlife-sanctuaries\/gulmarg-biosphere-reserve\/\">Gulmarg Biosphere Reserve<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kashmirhills.com\/wildlife\/kashmir-wildlife-sanctuaries\/jasrota-national-park\/\">Jasrota National Park<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kashmirhills.com\/wildlife\/kashmir-wildlife-sanctuaries\/kishtwar-high-altitude-national-park\/\">Kishtwar High Altitude National Park<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kashmirhills.com\/wildlife\/kashmir-wildlife-sanctuaries\/nandini-wildlife-sanctuary\/\">Nandni Wildlife Sanctuary<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kashmirhills.com\/wildlife\/kashmir-wildlife-sanctuaries\/ramnagar-national-park\/\">Ramnagar National Park<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kashmirhills.com\/wildlife\/kashmir-wildlife-sanctuaries\/surinsar-mansar-wildlife-sanctuary\/\">Surinsar Mansar Wildlife Sanctuary<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kashmirhills.com\/wildlife\/kashmir-wildlife-sanctuaries\/overa-wildlife-sanctuary\/\">Overa Wildlife Sanctuary<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Located 28 kms from Jammu, Nandini Wildlife Sanctuary is characterized by stunning locale and varied topography. The sanctuary derives its name from Nandini village. The region play hosts to a large number of rare and endangered species of mammals and birds. It supports 8 species of mammals and a wide variety of bird species. Much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12979,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-page-right-sidebar.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[276],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/emaven.co.in\/kashmir-hill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/emaven.co.in\/kashmir-hill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/emaven.co.in\/kashmir-hill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emaven.co.in\/kashmir-hill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emaven.co.in\/kashmir-hill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/emaven.co.in\/kashmir-hill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/emaven.co.in\/kashmir-hill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emaven.co.in\/kashmir-hill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emaven.co.in\/kashmir-hill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}