{"id":7063,"date":"2022-11-29T10:27:32","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T04:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7063"},"modified":"2025-03-28T16:46:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T11:16:44","slug":"jeypore-ground-gecko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/jeypore-ground-gecko\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeypore Ground Gecko"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The proposal to include the gecko in Appendix II was made by India at the recently-concluded 19th Conference of Parties (COP19) to CITES in Panama City. The proposal was adopted by the members of the Working Group.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>CITES Appendix II:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The animals listed under Appendix II may not necessarily be threatened with extinction, but trade in such species should be controlled to ensure it does not threaten their existence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN):<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>In 2019, the Jeypore Ground Gecko was assessed for the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)\u2019s Red List of Threatened Species and\u00a0<strong>was listed as \u2018endangered\u2019.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Distribution:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>This reptile is endemic to India.<\/li>\n<li>The wild reptile species is found in the\u00a0<strong>Eastern Ghats and is known to be present in four locations including southern Odisha and northern Andhra Pradesh.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Its occurrence is estimated in less than 5,000 square kilometres of fragmented geographical area.<\/li>\n<li>The species resides below rock boulders in high forested hills at an altitude of 1,100-1,400 metres.<\/li>\n<li>Habitat loss and degradation, forest fires, tourism, quarrying and mining activity among the reasons for the species\u2019 decline.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/news\/wildlife-biodiversity\/cites-cop19-rare-jeypore-ground-gecko-listed-in-appendix-2-to-stall-its-trafficking-86217\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Down To Earth<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proposal to include gecko in Appendix II was made by India at 19th Conference of Parties (COP19).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7064,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7063","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\/7063","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=7063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}