{"id":7267,"date":"2022-11-04T07:16:31","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T01:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7267"},"modified":"2025-03-28T19:12:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T13:42:43","slug":"the-international-day-for-biosphere-reserves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/the-international-day-for-biosphere-reserves\/","title":{"rendered":"The International Day for Biosphere Reserves"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About The International Day for Biosphere Reserves:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3><strong>Biosphere Reserves:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Biosphere Reserve (BR) is an international designation by UNESCO for representative parts of natural and cultural landscapes extending over large area of terrestrial or coastal\/marine ecosystems or a combination thereof.<\/li>\n<li>They are sites for testing interdisciplinary approaches to understanding and managing changes and interactions between social and ecological systems, including conflict prevention and management of biodiversity.<\/li>\n<li>Biosphere reserves are nominated by national governments and remain under the sovereign jurisdiction of the states where they are located.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>World Network of Biosphere Reserves:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The World Network of Biosphere Reserves (WNBR) was formed in 1971, as a backbone for biodiversity conservation, ecosystem restoration, and living in harmony with nature.<\/li>\n<li>The World Network of Biosphere Reserves of the\u00a0MAB Programme\u00a0consists of a dynamic and interactive network of sites of excellence.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The World Network of Biosphere Reserves promotes North-South and South-South collaboration and represents a unique tool for international co-operation through sharing knowledge, exchanging experiences, building capacity and promoting best practices.<\/li>\n<li>There are now 738 properties in 134 countries, including 12 in India, four in Sri Lanka, and three in the Maldives.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>South Asia:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>In South Asia, over 30 biosphere reserves have been established.<\/li>\n<li>The first one was the\u00a0<strong>Hurulu Biosphere Reserve<\/strong>, in Sri Lanka, with 25,500 hectares of tropical dry evergreen forest.<\/li>\n<li>In India, the first biosphere reserve was designated by UNESCO in 2000, namely, the<strong>\u00a0blue mountains of the Nilgiris stretching over Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/ShareArticle?OrgId=G2KAFEB7D.1&amp;imageview=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Hindu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3rd November will be celebrated as &#8216;The International Day for Biosphere Reserves&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7268,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7267","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\/7267","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=7267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}