{"id":7167,"date":"2023-04-03T02:55:20","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T21:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7167"},"modified":"2025-03-28T17:41:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T12:11:32","slug":"prosopis-chilensis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/prosopis-chilensis\/","title":{"rendered":"Prosopis Chilensis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Prosopis Chilensis:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>Prosopis chilensis<\/strong> is also known as <strong>Chilean mesquite.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is a small to medium-sized legume tree that grows up to 12 m in height and 1 m in diameter.<\/li>\n<li>It is a drought-resistant <strong>plant native to<\/strong> the arid regions of four South American countries namely <strong>Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Key facts about the Gulf of Mannar Biosphere Reserve (GoMBR)<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The Gulf of Mannar is one of the biologically richest coastal regions of India.<\/li>\n<li>It is the first Marine Biosphere Reserve in South and South East Asia.<\/li>\n<li>In India, the <strong>Gulf of Mannar region in Tamil Nadu<\/strong> is one of the four major <strong>coral reef<\/strong> areas and the others are the Gulf of Kutch in Gujarat, Lakhsadweep and Andaman and Nicobar islands.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is designated as a <strong>Biosphere Reserve.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>This Biosphere Reserve encompasses a chain of 21 islands (2 islands already submerged) and adjoining coral reefs off the coasts of the Ramanathapuram and the Tuticorin districts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is an invasive species?<\/h3>\n<p>An organism that is not native or indigenous to a certain location is referred to as an invasive species. Invasive species can seriously impact the local economy and ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/other-states\/triple-trouble-for-gulf-of-mannar-islands-study-finds\/article66692147.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Triple trouble for Gulf of Mannar islands, study finds<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prosopis chilensis is also known as Chilean mesquite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7167","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\/7167","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=7167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}