{"id":7063,"date":"2026-10-15T13:27:32","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T07:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7063"},"modified":"2026-10-15T15:42:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T10:12:21","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><b>Jeypore Ground Gecko\u00a0 Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, herpetologists raised concern that a bauxite mining project in Odisha threatens the future of rare Jeypore ground gecko (Cyrtodactylus jeyporensis).<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Jeypore Ground Gecko\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>reptile found in India.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is also known as the <\/span><b>Jeypore Indian gecko<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or the <\/span><b>Patinghe Indian gecko.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was originally described as far back as 1878 by the British naturalist <\/span><b>Richard Henry Beddome.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Appearance:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The <\/span><b>nocturnal gecko<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, some 3.6 inches long, with a comparatively large head, and a yellow-orange body.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Habitat: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It inhabits <\/span><b>semi-evergreen forests<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Distribution:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is a relatively range-restricted species that is only found in high-elevation (900\u20131,400 metres) forests in the <\/span><b>northern <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/eastern-ghats\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eastern Ghats<\/a><\/b> <b>of southern<\/b> <b>Odisha and northern Andhra Pradesh.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Threats:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Habitat loss and degradation, forest fires, tourism, quarrying and mining activity among the reasons for the species\u2019 decline.<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Conservation Status<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><b>IUCN Red List: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Endangered<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>CITES: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Appendix II<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/energy-and-environment\/mining-project-threatens-future-of-rare-jeypore-ground-gecko\/article71582605.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeypore Ground Gecko  is a reptile found in India. Read more about Jeypore Ground Gecko, Appearance, Habitat, Threats, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":129029,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10893,21,22,23],"class_list":["post-7063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-jeypore-ground-gecko","tag-prelims-pointers","tag-upsc-current-affairs","tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","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":2,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129117,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7063\/revisions\/129117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129029"}],"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}]}}