{"id":29692,"date":"2025-01-29T07:14:17","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T01:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=29692"},"modified":"2025-04-09T10:06:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T04:36:58","slug":"asian-waterbird-census","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/asian-waterbird-census\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Facts about Asian Waterbird Census"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Asian Waterbird Census Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>As per the Asian Waterbird Census-2025, a record number of 39,725 birds belonging to 106 species have been sighted in the Coringa Wildlife Sanctuary and adjoining wetlands.<\/p>\n<h2>About Asian Waterbird Census<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a citizen-science programme that supports<strong> the conservation<\/strong> and management of <strong>wetlands and waterbirds worldwide.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is conducted annually and is part of the global <strong>International Waterbird Census<\/strong> (IWC).<\/li>\n<li>It was <strong>initiated in 1987<\/strong> in the <strong>Indian subcontinent<\/strong> and since has grown rapidly to cover major region of Asia, from Afghanistan eastwards to Japan, Southeast Asia and Australasia.<\/li>\n<li>The census thus covers the entire <strong>East Asian \u2013 Australasian<\/strong> Flyway and a large part of the <strong>Central Asian Flyway.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>In India it is conducted under the aegis of the <strong>Bombay Natural History Society<\/strong> (BNHS) and the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) in early January.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What is Bombay Natural History Society?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>Non-Governmental Organisation in<\/strong> India engaged in conservation and biodiversity research.<\/li>\n<li>BNHS has been designated as a <strong>&#8216;Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation&#8217;<\/strong> by the Department of Science and Technology. BNHS is the partner of Bird Life International in India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Asian waterbird census FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1:<\/strong> Who conducts the Asian waterbird census?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong> The AWC is an integral part of the global waterbird monitoring programme, the International Waterbird Census (IWC), coordinated by Wetlands International.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2: <\/strong>What is the Wildlife Institute of India?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans: <\/strong>It is an autonomous institution established in 1982 under the Ministry of Environment, Forests, and Climate Change, Government of India.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3: <\/strong>What is the international waterbird census?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans: <\/strong>It is a monitoring programme operating in 143 countries to collect information on the numbers of waterbirds at wetland sites.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/andhra-pradesh\/asian-water-bird-census-2025-coringa-adjoining-wetlands-emerge-prime-feeding-habitat-for-106-avian-species\/article69151255.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asian Waterbird Census is a citizen-science programme that supports the conservation and management of wetlands and waterbirds worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":29693,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29692","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\/29692","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=29692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}