{"id":24078,"date":"2024-06-08T08:37:24","date_gmt":"2024-06-08T03:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=24078"},"modified":"2025-04-07T06:57:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T01:27:50","slug":"naturafrica-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/naturafrica-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"NaturAfrica initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About NaturAfrica initiative:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The NaturAfrica initiative is a<strong> European Union <\/strong>(EU) program aimed at supporting <strong>biodiversity conservation<\/strong> in Africa<strong> through a people-centred approach.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It identifies key landscapes for conservation and development, focusing on creating jobs, improving security, and sustainable livelihoods while preserving ecosystems and wildlife.<\/li>\n<li>The initiative is structured around<strong> two pillars<\/strong>: short-term <strong>actions in key landscapes<\/strong> and medium-term support<strong> to address the root causes of biodiversity loss<\/strong> and environmental degradation by integrating these concerns into other sectors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>About European Commission:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The European Commission is the <strong>executive body of the European Union (EU)<\/strong>, responsible for proposing new laws and policies, monitoring their implementation, managing the EU budget, and ensuring the correct application of EU policies and laws across member states.<\/li>\n<li>It is composed of <strong>27 members<\/strong>, known as Commissioners, each representing a different member state.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Commission is led by the President, who is<strong> elected by the European Parliament <\/strong>and proposed by the European Council.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1. What is the European Union?<\/h3>\n<p>The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of 27 countries primarily located in Europe. It promotes democratic values and is a powerful trade bloc. The EU was formed to strengthen economic and political cooperation among its member states, which have a combined GDP of over $16.6 trillion and a population of over 448 million.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/news\/africa\/fortress-conservation-tanzania-now-ineligible-for-european-union-conservation-grant-over-maasai-evictions-96588\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fortress Conservation: Tanzania now ineligible for European Union conservation grant over Maasai evictions<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NaturAfrica initiative is a European Union (EU) program aimed at supporting biodiversity conservation in Africa through a people-centred approach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":24079,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24078","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\/24078","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=24078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}