{"id":61517,"date":"2025-09-01T13:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T08:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=61517"},"modified":"2025-09-01T13:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T08:14:08","slug":"indian-rosewood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/indian-rosewood\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Rosewood"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>About Indian Rosewood Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to recent habitat modelling by the Institute of Wood Science and Technology (IWST), Bengaluru, only 17.2% of India\u2019s suitable habitat for Dalbergia latifolia \u2014 Indian rosewood \u2014 lies within protected areas.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Indian Rosewood<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Indian Rosewood i.e Dalbergia sissoo<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (North Indian rosewood) is often called the \u201civory of the forests,\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Indian Rosewood <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is a fast-growing, hardy, deciduous crooked rosewood<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Distribution:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is native to the <\/span><b>foothills of the Himalayas<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, ranging from Afghanistan in the <\/span><b>west to Bihar, India, in the east.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Habitat:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is primarily found <\/span><b>growing along river banks<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> above 200 m (700 ft) elevation, but can range naturally up to 1,400 m (4,600 ft).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has long, leathery leaves and whitish or pink flowers.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indian rosewood is prized for <\/span><b>its rich grain, deep colour, and exceptional durability<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It serves as both a premium timber resource for the furniture and handicraft industries and a <\/span><b>keystone ecological species.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is commonly used for furniture, musical instruments, decorative items and veneers.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Ecological Significance:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Rosewood trees <\/span><b>improve soil fertility through nitrogen fixation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, support bird and insect diversity, and act as long-term carbon sinks.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Concerns:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Researchers observed that <\/span><b>populations are dominated by mature<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, ageing trees with almost no regeneration in the wild. Seedlings are rare, and in many areas, entirely absent.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Conservation status of Indian Rosewood<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><b>IUCN:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Vulnerable<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>CITES list: <\/b>Appendix II<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/tamil-nadu\/tamil-nadu-has-lowest-density-of-rosewood-tree-population-in-south-india-finds-study\/article69995928.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TH<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Rosewood is often called the \u201civory of the forests,\u201d Read more about Indian Rosewood, Distribution, Concerns, Conservation Status, News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":61554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2439],"class_list":{"0":"post-61517","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-indian-rosewood","9":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61517","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}