{"id":5412,"date":"2022-12-05T10:35:57","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T05:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=5412"},"modified":"2025-03-27T08:22:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T02:52:12","slug":"assam-project-on-forest-and-biodiversity-conservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/assam-project-on-forest-and-biodiversity-conservation\/","title":{"rendered":"Assam Project on Forest and Biodiversity Conservation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>What is Assam Project on Forest and biodiversity Conservation?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Kaziranga project<\/strong> is a part of a larger Assam Project on Forest and Biodiversity Conservation (APFBC) for which the <strong>Agence Fran\u00e7aise de D\u00e9veloppement (AFD<\/strong>) has committed funding of \u20ac80.2 million for a 10-year period, between 2014-2024.<\/li>\n<li>The project conceptualised <strong>the reforestation of 33,500 hectares of land<\/strong> and the training of 10,000 community members in alternate livelihoods by 2024.<\/li>\n<li>APFBC Society was <strong>created by State Government of Assam as a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) <\/strong>registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860.<\/li>\n<li>The Society has the mandate for planning, implementation, monitoring, coordination and management of all the activities proposed under the project.<\/li>\n<li>With French and Indian technical and financial support, the <strong>Indo-Pacific Parks Partnership <\/strong>will facilitate partnership activities for interested natural parks of the Indo-Pacific region. These activities include biodiversity conservation, wildlife management and engagement with local communities.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kaziranga National Park<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Located in the <strong>State of Assam<\/strong> it is the single largest undisturbed and representative area in the Brahmaputra Valley floodplain.<\/li>\n<li>It is inhabited by the <strong>world&#8217;s largest population of one-horned rhinoceroses,<\/strong> as well as many mammals, including tigers, elephants, panthers and bears, and thousands of birds.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Protection status:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It was declared a national park in 1974.<\/li>\n<li>UNESCO declared it a world heritage site in 1985.<\/li>\n<li>It became a Tiger Reserve in 2006.<\/li>\n<li>It is also recognized as an \u2018Important Bird Area\u2019 by BirdLife International for the conservation of avifaunal species<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) Which is the largest and smallest national park in India?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Hemis National Park is the largest national park with an area of 4,400 km\u00b2, while, South Button Island National Park is the smallest with an area of just 5.19 km\u00b2.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/in-kaziranga-national-park-indo-french-partnership-bears-fruit-8305997\/#:~:text=With%20French%20and%20Indian%20technical,and%20engagement%20with%20local%20communities.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Indian Express<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APFBC is Indo-Pacific Parks Partnership for conservation of natural parks of Indo-Pacific region<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5413,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5412","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\/5412","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=5412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}