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Abubshahar Wildlife Sanctuary is situated in
Sirsa district Sirsa district is the largest district of Haryana state. Sirsa is the district headquarters. It is located on National Highway 9 and from the capital Delhi. Etymology The district is named after its headquarters, Sirsa. The name, Sirsa is der ...
of
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state,
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. It is spread over an area of 11530.56
hectare The hectare (; SI symbol: ha) is a non-SI metric unit of area equal to a square with 100- metre sides (1 hm2), or 10,000 m2, and is primarily used in the measurement of land. There are 100 hectares in one square kilometre. An acre is ...
s. It is 15 km away from
Mandi Dabwali Mandi Dabwali is a municipal committee town, near Sirsa City in Sirsa district in the Indian state of Haryana. It is located on the border of Haryana and Punjab. It is at a distance of 60 km from district headquarter Sirsa and 40 km f ...
on the Dabwali- Sangariya road.
Forests Department, Haryana Forests Department, Haryana is a department of the Government of Haryana in India that runs and maintains many protected nature areas in the state of Haryana. It has two administrative divisions: Forest and Wildlife. The department is responsib ...
of
Government of Haryana The Government of Haryana, also known as the State Government of Haryana, or locally as the State Government, is the supreme governing authority of the Indian state of Haryana and its 22 districts. It consists of an executive, ceremonially led ...
officially notified this as Wildlife Sanctuary on 30 January 1987. The plan is to change the status of this sanctuary into a Community Reserve, in order to ensure the participation of the local population in the plan for the protection of flora and fauna. Eleven villages gravitate to this area.


Location

It is located 10 km from
Mandi Dabwali Mandi Dabwali is a municipal committee town, near Sirsa City in Sirsa district in the Indian state of Haryana. It is located on the border of Haryana and Punjab. It is at a distance of 60 km from district headquarter Sirsa and 40 km f ...
on Dabawali-Sangaria road a
location map


Area

The sanctuary is spread over 11.530.56 hectares, which is approximately 29,000 acres.


Images of type of wildlife found

File:Saxicoloides fulicatus Bhindawas.jpg, Saxicoloides Fulicatus File:An_Indian_monkey_(bandar)_in_Malsi_Deer_Park_(photo_-_Jim_Ankan_Deka).jpg, Bandar (Monkey) File:Grey_Langur_monkey_in_Rishikesh.jpg, Langur Monkey File:Small black bird.jpg, Small black bird


Nearby attractions

* Fort of ''King Saras'' in
Sirsa Sirsa is a city and a municipal council in Sirsa district in the westernmost region of the Indian state of Haryana, bordering Punjab and Rajasthan. It is located in Thar desert. It is located 250 kilometres north-west of New Delhi and 260 kilome ...


See also

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List of National Parks & Wildlife Sanctuaries of Haryana, India The Haryana state of north India has 2 National Parks, 8 Wildlife Sanctuaries, 2 Wildlife Conservation Areas, 4 Animal & Bird Breeding Centers, 1 Deer park and 50 herbal parks which are managed by the Forests Department, Haryana of the Governmen ...
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Haryana Tourism Haryana Tourism Corporation (HTC) was constituted as a Public Limited Company under the Companies Act, 1956 on 1 May 1974. As an agent of the Government of Haryana, ''Haryana Tourism Corporation'' runs and maintains 44 Tourist Complexes spre ...
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List of Monuments of National Importance in Haryana This is a list of Monuments of National Importance (ASI) as officially recognized by and available through the website of the Archaeological Survey of India in the Indian state Haryana.
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List of State Protected Monuments in Haryana This is a list of State Protected Monuments as officially reported by and available through the website of the Archaeological Survey of India in the Indian state Haryana.
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List of Indus Valley civilization sites Over 1400 Indus Valley civilisation sites have been discovered, of which 925 sites are in India and 475 sites in Pakistan, while some sites in Afghanistan are believed to be trading colonies. Only 40 sites on the Indus valley were discovere ...
in
Haryana Haryana (; ) is an Indian state located in the northern part of the country. It was carved out of the former state of East Punjab on 1 Nov 1966 on a linguistic basis. It is ranked 21st in terms of area, with less than 1.4% () of India's land a ...
,
Punjab Punjab (; Punjabi: پنجاب ; ਪੰਜਾਬ ; ; also romanised as ''Panjāb'' or ''Panj-Āb'') is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising a ...
,
Rajasthan Rajasthan (; lit. 'Land of Kings') is a state in northern India. It covers or 10.4 per cent of India's total geographical area. It is the largest Indian state by area and the seventh largest by population. It is on India's northwestern s ...
,
Gujarat Gujarat (, ) is a state along the western coast of India. Its coastline of about is the longest in the country, most of which lies on the Kathiawar peninsula. Gujarat is the fifth-largest Indian state by area, covering some ; and the ninth ...
, India and Pakistan


References

Wildlife sanctuaries in Haryana Villages in Sirsa district 1987 establishments in Haryana Protected areas established in 1987 {{India-protected-area-stub