{"id":19326,"date":"2024-01-14T10:12:48","date_gmt":"2024-01-14T04:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=19326"},"modified":"2025-04-05T16:46:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T11:16:10","slug":"himalayan-wolf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/himalayan-wolf\/","title":{"rendered":"Himalayan Wolf"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Himalayan Wolf<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Himalayan Wolf (Canis lupus chanco), a prominent\u00a0lupine predator found across the Himalayas.<\/li>\n<li>It is also called Tibetan wolves, which live at more than 4,000 metres altitudes and are genetically distinct from grey wolves.<\/li>\n<li>Living at such high altitudes, these wolves have genetically\u00a0adapted\u00a0themselves to live in\u00a0low oxygen (hypoxic) conditions.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Distribution:\n<ul>\n<li>In\u00a0China, the Himalayan wolf lives on the\u00a0Tibetan Plateau in the provinces of Gansu, Qinghai, Tibet, and western Sichuan.<\/li>\n<li>In northern\u00a0India, it occurs in the\u00a0Union Territory of Ladakh and in the\u00a0Lahaul and Spiti region in northeastern\u00a0Himachal Pradesh.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Conservation status\n<ul>\n<li>IUCN: Vulnerable<\/li>\n<li>CITES: Appendix I<\/li>\n<li>Wildlife Protection Act, 1972: Schedule I<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Threats: It is illegally\u00a0hunted for trade in its fur and body parts including paws, tongues, heads, and other parts.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Measures to be taken to enhance the protection of Himalayan wolves\n<ul>\n<li>Securing and restoring healthy wild prey populations and landscapes and setting aside wildlife habitat refuges;<\/li>\n<li>Improving livestock guarding methods, such as predator-proof corral pens and using sustainable livestock herding practices, including reduced livestock loads, adapted herding, and developing novel but tradition-based holistic management practices<\/li>\n<li>Management of feral dog populations<\/li>\n<li>Trans-boundary efforts in conservation of the species in range countries through research and monitoring.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is IUCN?<\/h3>\n<p>The International Union for Conservation of Nature is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources. It was founded in 1948.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/news\/wildlife-biodiversity\/the-first-ever-iucn-assessment-of-the-himalayan-wolf-is-out-and-it-is-grim-93852\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>The first-ever IUCN assessment of the Himalayan Wolf is out. And it is grim<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Himalayan Wolf is a prominent lupine predator found across the Himalayas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19327,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19326","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\/19326","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=19326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}