{"id":19434,"date":"2024-01-17T06:39:58","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T01:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=19434"},"modified":"2025-04-05T17:31:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T12:01:20","slug":"pakke-paga-hornbill-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/pakke-paga-hornbill-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakke Paga Hornbill Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Pakke Paga Hornbill Festival<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The first-ever PPHF was held in 2015.<\/li>\n<li>The aim was to recognise the role played by the\u00a0Nyishi tribal group\u00a0in conserving hornbills in\u00a0Pakke Tiger Reserve (PTR).<\/li>\n<li>Other objectives were to raise alternative sources of income for the region and to create awareness in the rest of India about the wonders of PTR and its surrounding areas.<\/li>\n<li>This year, the festival\u2019s theme is\u00a0Domutoh Domutoh, Paga hum Domutoh. It translates to \u2018Let Our Hornbills Remain\u2019 in the Nyishi language.<\/li>\n<li>This year\u2019s festival aims to underscore the critical need for preserving these iconic birds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key points about Pakke Tiger Reserve<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is located in the East Kameng district of\u00a0Arunachal Pradesh.<\/li>\n<li>It is surrounded by the Tenga Reserve Forest to the North, Doimara Reserve Forest on the West,\u00a0Nameri National Park and Tiger Reserve (Assam) on\u00a0the South.<\/li>\n<li>The landscape has high species diversity and endemicity as it forms the transition zone between the\u00a0Indian and Malayan eco-regions.<\/li>\n<li>It is situated North of the\u00a0river Brahmaputra in the transition zone between the Assam plains and the hilly forests of Arunachal Pradesh.<\/li>\n<li>Vegetation:\u00a0It consists of\u00a0tropical evergreen and semi-evergreen forest.<\/li>\n<li>Flora: Polyalthia simiarum, Pterospermum acerifolium, Sterculia alata, Stereospermum chelonioides, Ailanthus grandis and Duabanga grandiflor. About eight species of\u00a0bamboo occur in the area.<\/li>\n<li>Fauna:\u00a0Tiger, Elephant, predators like Leopard and Clouded leopard etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) Who are Nyishi tribal people ?<\/h3>\n<p>They are people of eastern Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh, a mountainous state in northeastern India. They speak the Tibeto-Burman language of the Sino-Tibetan family. The Nyishi support themselves with slash-and-burn agriculture and with hunting and fishing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/news\/wildlife-biodiversity\/arunachal-pradesh-s-pakke-paga-hornbill-festival-gears-up-for-its-9th-edition-93924\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Arunachal Pradesh\u2019s Pakke Paga Hornbill Festival gears up for its 9th Edition<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakke Paga Hornbill Festival aim was to recognise the role played by the Nyishi tribal group in conserving hornbills in Pakke Tiger Reserve (PTR).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19435,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19434","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\/19434","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=19434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}