{"id":4314,"date":"2023-01-02T11:12:33","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T05:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=4314"},"modified":"2025-03-26T23:17:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T17:47:43","slug":"nilgiri-tahr-conservation-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/nilgiri-tahr-conservation-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Nilgiri Tahr Conservation Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About <\/strong><strong>Nilgiri Tahr Conservation Project:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Under The Nilgiri Tahr project, the Tamil Nadu government plans to\u00a0\n<ul>\n<li>Develop a better understanding of the Nilgiri Tahr population through surveys and radio telemetry studies<\/li>\n<li>Reintroduce the Tahrs to their historical habitat<\/li>\n<li>Address proximate threats<\/li>\n<li>Increase public awareness of the species<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The project is to be implemented for 5 year period from 2022 to 2027.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>What is Nilgiri Tahr?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Nilgiri Tahr is the only Caprinae species found in the <strong>tropical mountains of southern<\/strong> India.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Habitat:<\/strong> They are <strong>endemic to the Western Ghats<\/strong> and used to inhabit a large part of the Western Ghats between Kerala and Tamil Nadu.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Conservation Status\u00a0<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>IUCN &#8211; <strong>Endangered<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Wildlife (Protection) Act of India, 1972 &#8211; Schedule I<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) Which National Park has the highest density of Nilgiri Tahr?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The Eravikulam National Park has the highest density and largest surviving population of Nilgiri tahr.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/tamil-nadu\/tn-government-sets-up-nilgiri-tahr-conservation-project\/article66313586.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>T.N. government sets up Nilgiri Tahr conservation project<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nilgiri Tahr project aims to better understand Nilgiri Tahr through surveys and radio telemetry studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4315,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4314","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\/4314","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=4314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}