{"id":29595,"date":"2025-01-22T10:43:48","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T05:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=29595"},"modified":"2025-04-09T09:19:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T03:49:27","slug":"asan-conservation-reserve-acr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/asan-conservation-reserve-acr\/","title":{"rendered":"Asan Conservation Reserve (ACR)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Asan Conservation Reserve (ACR):<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a 444-hectare <strong>stretch of the Asan <\/strong>River running down to its confluence with the <strong>Yamuna River<\/strong> in <strong>Dehradun district of Uttarakhand<\/strong>.\u00a0\n<ul>\n<li>The Asan River, unlike other rivers which flow north to south, flows in a west to east direction.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It was declared as a Conservation Reserve in 2005 under Section 36A of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972.<\/li>\n<li>It is the <strong>first Ramsar site in Uttarakhand<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is also listed as an <strong>Important Bird Area<\/strong> (BNHS and BirdLife International) and is popular for sightings of native and migratory birds.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Strategically <strong>located within the Central Asian Flyways (CAF),<\/strong> the <strong>reserve <\/strong>homes 330 species of birds, including <strong>critically endangered-white-rumped vulture, Baer&#8217;s pochard<\/strong>; endangered-Egyptian vulture, steppe eagle, black-bellied tern; and vulnerable-marbled teal, common pochard, Indian spotted eagle, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Other <strong>non-avian species<\/strong> present include 49 fish species, one of these being the <strong>endangered Putitor mahseer<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1<\/strong>: Who declares conservation reserves?<\/h3>\n<p>Conservation reserves in India are declared by the State Governments under the provisions of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newindianexpress.com\/nation\/2025\/Jan\/21\/52k-birds-of-117-species-in-uttarakhands-asan-wetland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asan Conservation Reserve is a 444-hectare stretch of the Asan River running down to its confluence with the Yamuna River in Dehradun district of Uttarakhand. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":29596,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29595","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\/29595","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=29595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}