{"id":119665,"date":"2021-07-19T17:32:02","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T12:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=119665"},"modified":"2021-07-20T11:09:35","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T05:39:35","slug":"odisha-rolls-out-conservation-plan-for-ganjam-slender-gecko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/odisha-rolls-out-conservation-plan-for-ganjam-slender-gecko\/","title":{"rendered":"Odisha rolls out conservation plan for Ganjam Slender Gecko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/news\/wildlife-biodiversity\/odisha-s-forest-department-rolls-out-conservation-plan-for-new-gecko-species-discovered-in-ganjam-77955\">Down To Earth<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h5><strong>What is the News?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Odisha&#8217;s forest officials have announced measures to preserve the newly discovered tiny gecko species named Ganjam Slender Gecko.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>About Ganjam Slender Gecko<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ganjam Slender Gecko <\/strong>is a tiny gecko species of the genus <em>Hemiphyllodactylus<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>The species was first spotted within the premises of a temple at <strong>Humma in Ganjam district<\/strong> in 2014.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features: <\/strong>They grow 6 cm in length. They feed on ants, termites, small roaches, spiders, and beetles.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Habitat<\/strong>: The only habitat of the species is <strong>Jhadeshawar <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/appendix\/#6_Sacred_Groves\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sacred grove<\/a><\/span><\/strong>. Moreover, they are only found in mango trees surrounding the temple. They were never found on concrete walls or below rock boulders, unlike other members of the genus.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Significance: <\/strong>This new species is the 7th Indian species of the genus, the second from the northern Eastern Ghats and 41st globally. It is also the <strong>first non-island species of the genus<\/strong> which is distributed in lowland habitats.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>About Geckos<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Geckos are reptiles. <\/strong>They are found on all the continents <strong>except Antarctica<\/strong>. These colorful lizards have adapted to habitats from rainforests to deserts to cold mountain slopes.<\/li>\n<li>Most geckos are <strong>nocturnal,<\/strong> which means they are active at night but day geckos are active during the day and nibble on insects, fruits and flower nectar.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Important Gecko Species of India in news<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Indian golden gecko: <\/strong>It is a species of gecko known only from the Eastern Ghats of India. It was rediscovered from the hills near present-day Tirupati.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>IUCN Status<\/strong>: Least Concern (LC).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Schedule 1 <\/strong>of<strong>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wildlife-protection-act-1972-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WPA (Wildlife Protection Act).<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Common House Gecko<\/strong>: It is a gecko species native to South and Southeast Asia. It is also known as the Asian house gecko, Pacific house gecko, wall gecko, house lizard, Tayoto, or moon lizard.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>IUCN Status<\/strong>: Least Concern (LC).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tokay gecko or Gekko gecko:\u00a0<\/strong>They are found from northeast India to the Indo-Australian Archipelago and tropical rain forests.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Schedule III<\/strong> of the Indian Wildlife Protection Act.<\/li>\n<li><strong>IUCN Status<\/strong>: Least Concern (LC)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Dwarf gecko (Cnemaspis avasabinae): a New<\/b> species of lizard, the smallest known Indian gekkonid, was discovered in 2020 in the Eastern Ghats. The first species was reported from the <strong>Velikonda Range<\/strong> in Andhra Pradesh.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Down To Earth What is the News? Odisha&#8217;s forest officials have announced measures to preserve the newly discovered tiny gecko species named Ganjam Slender Gecko. About Ganjam Slender Gecko Ganjam Slender Gecko is a tiny gecko species of the genus Hemiphyllodactylus. The species was first spotted within the premises of a temple at Humma&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/odisha-rolls-out-conservation-plan-for-ganjam-slender-gecko\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Odisha rolls out conservation plan for Ganjam Slender Gecko<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,9],"tags":[8471,8475,923,8472],"class_list":["post-119665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-gecko","tag-gecko-species-of-india","tag-species","tag-species-in-news","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704352921},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}