{"id":12230,"date":"2023-06-19T10:18:31","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T04:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=12230"},"modified":"2025-03-30T08:08:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T02:38:48","slug":"reef-sharks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/reef-sharks\/","title":{"rendered":"Reef Sharks"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Reef Sharks:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>They play a major role in shaping <strong>Caribbean reef communities.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>As the top predators of the reef and <strong>indicator species <\/strong>for marine ecosystems, they help maintain the delicate balance of marine life in reef environments.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Habitat:<\/strong> Tropical waters near coral reefs, sea grass beds and mangroves.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Species of reef sharks:<\/strong> The Caribbean reef shark, nurse shark, grey reef shark, blacktip reef shark and whitetip reef shark\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Threats:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>They are <strong>highly valued for their mea<\/strong>t, leather, liver oil, and fishmeal, which make them prone to overfishing and targeting.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>They are threatened by the <strong>degradation and destruction of their coral reef<\/strong> habitat due to coastal development and resulting pollution.<\/li>\n<li>They are often <strong>unintentionally caught by unregulated<\/strong> and illegal fishing practices that cannot distinguish the reef shark from the fishers\u2019 targeted species.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Indicator species?<\/h3>\n<p>Indicator species are organisms that can provide information about the environmental conditions of a particular ecosystem. These species are selected based on their sensitivity to specific environmental changes, such as pollution, habitat loss, or climate change.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theprint.in\/environment\/reef-sharks-pushed-to-extinction-by-overfishing-up-to-73-decline-in-5-common-species-globally\/1631418\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Reef sharks \u2018pushed to extinction by overfishing\u2019, up to \u201873% decline\u2019 in 5 common species globally<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reef sharks play a major role in shaping Caribbean reef communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12231,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12230","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12230","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=12230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}