{"id":9795,"date":"2022-10-14T05:07:15","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T23:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=9795"},"modified":"2025-03-29T15:29:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T09:59:30","slug":"slender-loris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/slender-loris\/","title":{"rendered":"Slender Loris"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The state government notified &#8216;Kadavur slender loris sanctuary&#8217; under Section 26 (A)(1)(b) of Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Slender Loris:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Slender Loris is a small nocturnal mammal that spends most of its life on trees.<\/li>\n<li>They are native to India and Sri Lanka and are also amongst the world\u2019s top 25 endangered primates.<\/li>\n<li>They are listed under endangered species as per the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).<\/li>\n<li>They are also protected under Schedule 1 of the Indian legislation of the Wildlife (Protection) Act (WPA), 1972.<\/li>\n<li>They act as biological predators of pests that harm agricultural crops and help farmers.<\/li>\n<li>As per\u00a0reports, there are 14,000 Slender Loris in the Dindigul and Karur forests in Tamil Nadu.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/india-news\/tn-notifies-india-s-first-sanctuary-for-slender-lorises-101665598556847.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hindustan Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slender Loris is a small nocturnal mammal that spends most of its life on trees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9796,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9795","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\/9795","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=9795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}