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 Located
on the fringe of the Great Indian Thar Desert is nestled a
unique refuge of the most elegant Antelope encountered in
India “The Black buck”. Tal Chapper sanctuary with
almost flat tract and interspersed shallow low lying areas
has open grassland with scattered Acacia and prosopis trees
which give it an appearance of a typical Savanna. The word
“Tal” means plane land. The rain water flows through shallow
low lying areas and collect in the small seasonal water
ponds.
The Geology of the zone is obscured by the wind blown
over-burden. Some small hillocks and exposed rocks of slate
and quartzite are found in the western side of the
sanctuary. Area between hillocks and the sanctuary
constitutes the watershed area of the sanctuary. The whole
sanctuary used to be flooded by water during the heavy rains
but with salt mining going on in the watershed. Hardly any
rain water falling on the hillocks reach the Sanctuary.
 The
Tal Chapper sanctuary lies in the Sujangarh Tehsil of
Churu District, Situated in the North-East part of
Rajasthan. It lies on Nokha- Sujangarh state Highway and is
situated at a distance of 85 KM from Churu & about 132 Km
from Bikaner. The nearest Railway station is Chapper which
lies on Degana – Churu – Rewari metre gauge line of Northen
Western Railways.
The nearest Airport is Sanganer (Jaipur) which is at a
distance of 215 Kms from Chapper. |
