{"id":12030,"date":"2025-11-29T12:04:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T06:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=12030"},"modified":"2025-11-29T13:52:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T08:22:04","slug":"golden-jackal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/golden-jackal\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Jackal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Golden Jackal Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Golden Jackal Ambassadors\u2019 scheme is to be launched by Tenkasi District Forest Division of Tamil Nadu for conserving the rapidly dwindling Golden Jackals.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Golden Jackal<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is also known as <\/span><b>the common jackal<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or reed wolf is a medium-sized wolf-like canid.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is <strong>strictly nocturnal<\/strong> in areas inhabited by humans, but may be partly diurnal elsewhere.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They dig caverns for shelter, or use crevices in rocks, or caverns that were dug by other animals.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They live in mated pairs and are strictly monogamous.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Habitat:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> These animals are <strong>abundant in valleys and along rivers and their tributaries,<\/strong> canals, lakes, and seashores, but are rare in foothills and low mountains.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Distribution:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> North and East Africa, Southeastern Europe and South Asia to Burma.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are <strong>quite widespread across India<\/strong>. Right from the Himalayan foothills, down to the Western Ghats, the Golden Jackal has a wide distribution.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Diet:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> They are omnivores. These opportunistic foragers have a rather diverse diet.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Conservation Status of Golden Jackal<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>IUCN:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Least Concern<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>CITES:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Appendix III<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Wildlife Protection Act, 1972:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Schedule I<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/cities\/Madurai\/golden-jackal-ambassadors-scheme-to-be-launched-in-schools-colleges-of-tenkasi-district\/article70331506.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TH<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Know the Golden Jackal\u2019s habitat, range, diet and conservation status. Explore details on the Tenkasi plan to protect India\u2019s rapidly declining jackal population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":57277,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1876,21,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-12030","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-golden-jackal","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","11":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}