{"id":24707,"date":"2025-10-27T08:10:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T02:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=24707"},"modified":"2025-10-30T13:51:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T08:21:56","slug":"xenophrys-apatani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/xenophrys-apatani\/","title":{"rendered":"Xenophrys apatani"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Xenophrys apatani:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It has been named after the <strong>dominant Apatani community<\/strong> in recognition of their ingenuity in the conservation of wild flora and fauna.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Distribution:<\/strong> It is distributed along the <strong>Eastern Himalayan<\/strong> and the <strong>Indo-Burma biodiversity<\/strong> hot spots of the country.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key facts about Apatani community<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Apatani are a <strong>tribal group<\/strong> of people living in the <strong>Ziro valley in Arunachal Pradesh<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Language:<\/strong> They speak a local <strong>language called Tani<\/strong> and worship the sun and the moon.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Festivals:<\/strong> They have major festivals like <strong>Dree, Myoko, Yapung and Murung<\/strong>.\n<ul>\n<li>Dree is celebrated with <strong>prayers for a bumper harvest<\/strong> and prosperity of all humankind and <strong>Myoka celebrates friendship<\/strong> similar to modern friendship day.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>They have been practising <strong>integrated rice-fish farming<\/strong> in their mountain terraces of Arunachal Pradesh since the 1960s.<\/li>\n<li>They principally use three rice varieties: <strong>Emeo, Pyape and Mypia.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key Facts about Tale Valley Wildlife Sanctuary<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is located near the beautiful Apatani cultural landscape in the <strong>Lower Subansiri District of Arunachal Pradesh.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Rivers like <strong>Pange, Sipu, Karing, and Subansiri<\/strong> flow through this sanctuary.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Flora:<\/strong> It has a stunning spectrum of subtropical and alpine forests like silver fir trees, ferns, orchids, bamboo, and rhododendron.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fauna:<\/strong> Clouded leopard, Himalayan squirrel, Himalayan Black Bear etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is a Biodiversity Heritage Site?<\/h3>\n<p>Biodiversity Heritage Site are areas that are unique, ecologically fragile ecosystems having rich biodiversity comprising of any one or more of the components such as; species richness, high endemism, presence of rare, endemic and threatened species etc.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/arunachal-pradesh\/arunachal-pradesh-yields-new-species-of-horned-frog\/article68358509.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Arunachal Pradesh yields new species of horned frog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xenophrys apatani has been named after the dominant Apatani community in recognition of their ingenuity in the conservation of wild flora and fauna.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":24708,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24707","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\/24707","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=24707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}