{"id":9962,"date":"2022-10-13T02:18:40","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T20:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=9962"},"modified":"2025-03-29T16:30:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T11:00:54","slug":"world-sloth-bear-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/world-sloth-bear-day\/","title":{"rendered":"World Sloth Bear Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It aims to spread awareness about protection and conservation of sloth bears.<\/li>\n<li>A proposal for observing the World Sloth Bear Day was mooted by Wildlife SOS India, an organisation involved in sloth bear conservation and protection for over two decades and the IUCN-Species Survival Commission sloth bear expert team accepted the proposal and declared the day to be celebrated worldwide.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Sloth bears (\u00a0Melursus ursinus):<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Sloth bears are endemic to the Indian sub-continent with small populations in Nepal and Srilanka and 90% of the species population is found in India.<\/li>\n<li>They are classified as \u2018Vulnerable\u2019 on the IUCN Red List.<\/li>\n<li>They are identified by their very distinct long, shaggy dark brown or black fur, distinct white V-shaped chest patch and four-inch long ivory-coloured curved claws used for digging out termites and ants from rock-hard mounds.\u00a0Listed under Schedule I of the (Wildlife Protection) Act of India, 1972 the\u00a0species has the same level of protection as tigers, rhinos and elephants.<\/li>\n<li>They are found in all parts of the country except Jammu and Kashmir and north-eastern States.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/ShareArticle?OrgId=GIRACTQRV.1&amp;imageview=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Hindu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The inception of World Sloth Bear Day on October 12,2022 in collaboration with IUCN and forest department<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9963,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9962","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\/9962","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=9962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}