{"id":153514,"date":"2021-12-15T16:59:49","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T11:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?page_id=153514"},"modified":"2021-12-15T16:59:49","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T11:29:49","slug":"indias-first-dugong-conservation-reserve","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indias-first-dugong-conservation-reserve\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s first dugong conservation reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>About the reserve-<\/strong> The Tamil Nadu State government has announced plans to set up a 500-sq km Dugong Conservation Reserve in Palk Bay. This is India\u2019s first dugong conservation reserve.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_153523\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-153523\" style=\"width: 251px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-153523 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/THSRTH.jpg?resize=251%2C392&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"251\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/THSRTH.jpg?w=251&amp;ssl=1 251w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/THSRTH.jpg?resize=192%2C300&amp;ssl=1 192w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-153523\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Source- The New Indian Express<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>As per Wildlife Institute of India, the area is being used as breeding grounds by dugongs and therefore identified as a \u2018critical habitat of the dugong\u2019.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Flora<\/strong>-About 82% of the proposed conservation reserve is covered with seagrass with 48% having intensive seagrass cover.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Other Fauna<\/strong>-The proposed conservation reserve supports several globally important species such as the highly-threatened whale shark, sea horses, green and hawksbill sea turtles, dolphins and sacred chanks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About the reserve- The Tamil Nadu State government has announced plans to set up a 500-sq km Dugong Conservation Reserve in Palk Bay. This is India\u2019s first dugong conservation reserve. As per Wildlife Institute of India, the area is being used as breeding grounds by dugongs and therefore identified as a \u2018critical habitat of the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indias-first-dugong-conservation-reserve\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India\u2019s first dugong conservation reserve<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10335,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-153514","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/153514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/153514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}