{"id":20647,"date":"2024-02-19T06:06:15","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T00:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=20647"},"modified":"2025-04-06T02:42:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T21:12:18","slug":"caf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/caf\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Asian Flyway"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Central Asian Flyway<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It covers a large continental area of Eurasia between\u00a0the Arctic and Indian Oceans and the associated island chains.<\/li>\n<li>A flyway is a geographical region within which a single or group of migratory species completes its annual cycle \u2014 breeding, moulting, staging and non-breeding.<\/li>\n<li>There are nine flyways in the world.<\/li>\n<li>Geographically the flyway region\u00a0covers 30 countries of North, Central and South Asia and Trans-Caucasus.<\/li>\n<li>There is an overlap between the CAF and the area of the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA), which was concluded in 1995, at The Hague, the Netherlands.<\/li>\n<li>Sixteen out of the thirty countries encompassed by the CAF are located in the AEWA Agreement Area.<\/li>\n<li>CAF migration routes include the steppes and cold deserts of Central Eurasia, and much of the Himalayan chain, where unique, high-altitude migrations such as those of the Bar-headed Goose, Anser indicus, take place.<\/li>\n<li>India\u2019s Initiative: The 14 species which will be listed in CMS appendices include\n<ul>\n<li>Eurasian Lynx, Peruvian Pelican, Pallas\u2019s Cat, Guanaco, Laulao Catfish, Balkan Lynx, Lahille\u2019s Bottlenose Dolphin, Harbour Porpoise, Magellanic Plover, Bearded Vulture, Blackchin Guitarfish, Bull Ray, Lusitanian Cownose Ray and Gilded Catfish.<\/li>\n<li>The adopted initiative includes the establishment of a coordinating unit in India with financial support from the Indian Government.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the International Single Species Action Plan?<\/h3>\n<p>It is the key instrument developed under the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/news\/wildlife-biodiversity\/central-asian-flyway-recognised-to-protect-over-600-migratory-bird-species-94513\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Central Asian Flyway recognised to protect over 600 migratory bird species<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Central Asian Flyway covers a large continental area of Eurasia between the Arctic and Indian Oceans and the associated island chains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20647","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","7":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20647","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=20647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}