{"id":24756,"date":"2025-08-14T11:54:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T06:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=24756"},"modified":"2025-08-14T13:15:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T07:45:26","slug":"indian-gaur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/indian-gaur\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaur"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Gaur Latest news<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Palamau Tiger Reserve (PTR), the last stronghold of Gaur (Bos gaurus) in Jharkhand, has registered an alarming decline in the bovid\u2019s population.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Gaur<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gaur, also known as <\/span><b>Indian Bison, is the<\/b> <b>largest species<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> among the wild cattle and the Bovidae.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Distribution:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Gaurs are indigenous to the <\/span><b>South and Southeast parts of Asia.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Habitat\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gaurs are primarily found in <\/span><b>evergreen and semi-evergreen forests<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> along with moist deciduous forests with open grasslands.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They prefer hilly-terrains below an altitude of 1,500-1,800 m with large and undisturbed forest tracts and abundant water.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Conservation Status of Gaur<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><b>IUCN Red List:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Vulnerable<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>CITES:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Appendix I<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Wild Life Protection Act, 1972:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Schedule I\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Ecological Significance:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It plays a vital role in maintaining ecological balance in forests besides serving as <\/span><b>important prey species for tigers.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Being herbivores, they also help shape <\/span><b>vegetation dynamics and contribute to seed dispersal.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Threats:<\/b> <b>Loss of habitat<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> throughout most of their range. Another serious concern is susceptibility to <\/span><b>domestic cattle diseases<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> like rinderpest, hoof, or mouth disease.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>\u00a0Source:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/wildlife-biodiversity\/gaur-declining-in-palamau-tiger-reserve-its-last-stronghold-in-jharkhand\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DTE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Bison of Gaur is the largest and tallest in the family of wild cattle. 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