{"id":2823,"date":"2023-02-21T03:00:03","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T21:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=2823"},"modified":"2025-03-26T08:33:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T03:03:19","slug":"alexandrine-parakeet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/alexandrine-parakeet\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexandrine Parakeet"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Alexandrine Parakeet:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is named after Alexander the Great, who transported numerous birds from Punjab to various European and Mediterranean countries and regions.<\/li>\n<li>These birds are highly intelligent and are known to be <strong>excellent talkers,<\/strong> making them very popular pets.<\/li>\n<li>These parakeets are <strong>diurnal social birds<\/strong>. They usually live in small flocks but form larger groups in areas where food is abundant or at communal roosts.<\/li>\n<li>They are widespread in <strong>South and South-East Asia<\/strong> where they live in forests, woodlands, agricultural lands, and mangrove forests.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Conservation status:<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>IUCN: Near Threatened<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Wildlife Protection Act, 1972<\/strong>: Schedule IV<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Key facts about the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972.<\/h3>\n<p>There are <strong>Six Schedules<\/strong> in this act. These Schedules give a different standard of protection.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Listed breeds and types of animals in <strong>Schedule I and part II of Schedule II<\/strong> get <strong>supreme protection<\/strong>. Offences under these are prescribed the highest penalties.<\/li>\n<li>For example Himalayan Brown Bear, Indian Elephant etc.<\/li>\n<li>The Listed breeds and types of animals <strong>in Schedule III and Schedule IV<\/strong> are also secured, but the <strong>penalties are comparatively much lower<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>For example, Barking Deer, Falcons, Kingfisher, Tortoise etc.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Schedule V<\/strong> includes the animals which can be hunted.<\/li>\n<li>For example, Common Crow, Mice, Rats, Fruit Bats etc.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>plants, trees and crops mentioned in Schedule VI<\/strong> are banned from Cultivation and Planting. For example, Kuth, Red Vanda, Pitcher Plant etc.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) Who was Alexander the Great?<\/h3>\n<p>Alexander the Great was king of Macedonia from 336 B.C. to 323 B.C. and conquered a huge empire that stretched from the Balkans to modern-day Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/cities\/chennai\/tamil-nadu-actor-robo-shankar-fined-rs-2-5-lakh-for-keeping-alexandrine-parakeets-at-home-8456784\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Tamil Nadu: Actor Robo Shankar fined Rs 2.5 lakh for keeping Alexandrine parakeets at home<\/u><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexandrine Parakeet is named after Alexander the Great, who transported birds from Punjab to European countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2824,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2823","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\/2823","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=2823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}