{"id":27617,"date":"2024-10-28T11:16:57","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T05:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=27617"},"modified":"2025-04-08T11:02:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T05:32:34","slug":"nature-conservation-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/nature-conservation-index\/","title":{"rendered":"Nature Conservation Index"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Nature Conservation Index:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is developed by\u00a0<strong>Goldman Sonnenfeldt School<\/strong>\u00a0of Sustainability and Climate Change at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.<\/li>\n<li>The NCI is a data-driven analysis assessing each country&#8217;s progress in balancing conservation and development.<\/li>\n<li>It is aimed at helping governments, researchers, and organisations identify concerns and enhance conservation\u00a0<strong>policies for long-term biodiversity protection.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>This is the\u00a0<strong>first-ever edition<\/strong>\u00a0of the index which ranks countries based on their efforts vis-\u00e0-vis\u00a0<strong>four pillars:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Managing protected areas, addressing threats against biodiversity, nature and conservation governance, and future trends in a country\u2019s natural resource management.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Highlights<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>India\u2019s rank at the bottom is mainly attributed to\u00a0<strong>inefficient land management\u00a0<\/strong>and rising threats to its biodiversity.<\/li>\n<li>The assessment highlighted multiple threats to India\u2019s biodiversity, including\u00a0<strong>habitat loss and fragmentation\u00a0<\/strong>caused by agriculture, urbanisation and infrastructural development, with climate change posing an additional risk.<\/li>\n<li>The top-ranking countries were Luxembourg, Estonia, and Denmark, with others including Zimbabwe and Costa Rica finding their way into the top 10.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is Biological diversity?<\/h3>\n<p>It is that part of nature that includes the variety of genes among the individuals of a species, the variety and richness of all the plant and animal species in an ecosystem and various types of ecosystems on the earth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/wildlife-biodiversity\/2024-global-nature-conservation-index-india-ranked-176-out-of-180-countries-labelled-among-worst-performers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u00a02024 Global Nature Conservation Index: India ranked 176 out of 180 countries, labelled among worst performers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nature Conservation Index is developed by Goldman Sonnenfeldt School of Sustainability and Climate Change at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":27618,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27617","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\/27617","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=27617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}