{"id":17980,"date":"2025-10-12T14:15:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T08:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=17980"},"modified":"2025-10-13T20:49:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T15:19:34","slug":"green-turtle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/green-turtle\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Sea Turtle"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Green Sea Turtle Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) the Red List status of the green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) has improved from Endangered to Least Concern due to sustained conservation.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Green Sea Turtle<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the largest <\/span><b>hard-shelled sea turtle<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The common name of this species refers to the <\/span><b>usually green fat found beneath its carapace<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, not to the color of its carapace, which is olive to black.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Food:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The diet of Green sea turtles <\/span><b>changes with age.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Juveniles are carnivorous, but as they mature they become <\/span><b>omnivorous.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Green turtles <\/span><b>serve as keystone species<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in tropical marine ecosystems.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Distribution: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The species is found in <\/span><b>tropical and subtropical waters<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> around the globe.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Features of Green Sea Turtle<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They have a comparatively small head.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They <\/span><b>do not have teeth<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, but their jaws have modified \u201cbeaks\u201d suited to their particular diet.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They <\/span><b>do not have visible ears<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> but have eardrums covered by skin. They hear best at low frequencies, and their sense of smell is excellent.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They spend almost all their lives underwater and come out of the water only when nesting.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Lifespan:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Estimated to be 60-70 years.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Conservation Status: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IUCN: <\/span><b>Least Concern<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/amp\/story\/wildlife-biodiversity\/global-green-sea-turtle-population-has-increased-by-28-per-cent-since-1970s-iucn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DTE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Green Sea Turtle, the largest hard-shelled turtle, has olive to black shells, shifts from carnivorous to omnivorous with age, and is a keystone species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17981,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3211,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-17980","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-green-sea-turtle","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17980","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=17980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}