{"id":4393,"date":"2023-01-03T06:08:10","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T00:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=4393"},"modified":"2025-03-27T00:06:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T18:36:22","slug":"indian-rhinoceros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/indian-rhinoceros\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Rhinoceros"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Distribution<\/strong>: The Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) is found only in the Brahmaputra valley, parts of North Bengal, and parts of southern Nepal.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Characteristics<\/strong>: It has a single black horn that can grow up to 60 cm, and a tough, grey-brown hide with skin folds, which gives the animal its characteristic armour-plated look.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Conservation<\/strong>: The Indian rhino is listed as vulnerable (better than endangered, worse than near threatened) in the IUCN Red List; it was earlier placed in the endangered category.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Population<\/strong>: According to the WWF, there are around 3,700 Indian rhinos in the wild today. Assam\u2019s Kaziranga National Park (KNP) alone has 2,613 animals, according to a census carried out in March 2022. There are more than 250 other rhinos in the Orang, Pobitora, and Manas parks.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rhino poaching:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Rhinos have been poached for their horn, which is prized in some cultures.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Ground rhino horn is used in <strong>traditional Chinese medicine<\/strong> to cure a range of ailments, from cancer to hangovers, and also as an aphrodisiac\u201d; in Vietnam, a rhino horn is <strong>considered a status symbol.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) What is World Wide Fund for Nature?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>It is an independent conservation organization active in nearly 100 countries, which is working to sustain the natural world for the benefit of people and wildlife.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/for-first-time-in-many-years-no-rhinos-poached-in-assam-in-2022-8357458\/#:~:text=Assam%20Chief%20Minister%20Himanta%20Biswa,of%20rhino%20poaching%20in%20Assam.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>For first time in many years, no rhinos poached in Assam in 2022<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Rhinoceros has a single black horn that can grow up to 60 cm, and a tough, grey-brown hide with skin folds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4394,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4393","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\/4393","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=4393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}