{"id":2530,"date":"2023-02-01T01:14:27","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T19:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=2530"},"modified":"2025-03-25T22:22:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T16:52:36","slug":"yaya-tso-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/yaya-tso-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Yaya Tso Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Why in news?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Biodiversity Management Committee, the panchayat of Chumathang village, along with the SECURE Himalaya Project recently resolved the issue and declared Yaya Tso Lake a biodiversity heritage site.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Key facts about the Yaya Tso Lake<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Lake Yaya Tso is known as a <strong>bird&#8217;s paradise<\/strong> for its beautiful lake located at an altitude of 4,820 metres in Ladakh.<\/li>\n<li>It is a nesting habitat for a large number of birds and animals, such as the bar-headed goose, black-necked crane and brahminy duck<\/li>\n<li>It is also one of the highest breeding sites of the <strong>black-necked crane<\/strong> in India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What is the Secure Himalaya project?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is funded by the <strong>Global Environment Facility.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It supports the government\u2019s efforts for the <strong>conservation of snow leopard<\/strong> and its habitat by developing and implementing a landscape-based approach for Himalayan ecosystems, and addresses key issues of habitat degradation, threatened livelihoods and illegal trade in wildlife.<\/li>\n<li>It was launched in 2017.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Project Landscapes:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Changthang, Ladakh Landscape, Jammu &amp; Kashmir<\/li>\n<li>Lahaul-Pangi and Kinnaur Landscapes,<\/li>\n<li>Gangotri-Govind and Darma-Byans Landscapes,<\/li>\n<li>Khangchendzonga-upper Teesta Valley<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)What is a biodiversity heritage site?<\/h3>\n<p>Biodiversity Heritage Sites&#8221; (BHS) are well-defined areas that are unique, ecologically fragile ecosystems &#8211; terrestrial, coastal and inland waters and, marine having rich biodiversity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.livemint.com\/news\/india\/yaya-tso-to-become-ladakh-s-first-biodiversity-heritage-site-11675183595974.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Yaya Tso to become Ladakh\u2019s first biodiversity heritage site<\/u><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lake Yaya Tso is known as a bird&#8217;s paradise for its beautiful lake located in Ladakh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2530","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\/2530","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=2530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}