{"id":5932,"date":"2022-12-21T09:35:05","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T04:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=5932"},"modified":"2025-03-27T11:46:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T06:16:17","slug":"captive-asian-giant-tortoise-juveniles-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/captive-asian-giant-tortoise-juveniles-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Captive Asian Giant Tortoise juveniles released"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About the Asian Giant Tortoise:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The soft release of Asian Giant Tortoise is an attempt to boost conservation and repopulating the species. The <strong>soft release is a process of gradually releasing captive-raised species into the wild.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Distribution:<\/strong> They are found in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, and Malaysia and other places.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Diet: <\/strong>Bamboo shoots, tubers and other juicy vegetation and some invertebrates and frogs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Threats:<\/strong> Hunting for consumption, habitat loss, anthropogenic activities like construction and slash and burn.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Conservation Status<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>IUCN :Critically Endangered<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>CITES :Appendix II<\/li>\n<li>Indian Wildlife (Protection) Act of 1972 : Schedule IV<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Intanki National Park:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is also known as the Ntangki National Park, which was established by British administrators in the year 1923.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Flora:<\/strong> it has thick rain forests which creates natural habitat for many animals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Fauna:<\/strong>\u00a0 Wild buffaloes, Hoolok gibbo ,Tigers, Sloth bear, Wild dogs and flying squirrels.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) Which river flows through Intanki National Park?<\/h3>\n<p>Intanki is contiguous with Dhansiri Reserve Forest of Assam (Karbi Anglong) to the north. The <strong>Dhansiri River<\/strong> marks the boundary between these two areas. Many rivers and streams intersect the Park, among them Monglu, Intanki and Duilong are the major tributaries of Dhansiri river.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/news\/wildlife-biodiversity\/10-asian-giant-tortoises-released-into-nagaland-protected-area-for-rewilding-86675\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Down to Earth<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asian Giant Tortoises are the largest tortoises in mainland Asia, Critically Endangered in IUCN red list<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5933,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5932","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\/5932","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=5932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}