{"id":126383,"date":"2021-08-16T19:17:21","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T13:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=126383"},"modified":"2021-08-16T20:08:29","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T14:38:29","slug":"indias-first-leopard-reserve-offers-lessons-in-coexistence-conservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indias-first-leopard-reserve-offers-lessons-in-coexistence-conservation\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s first leopard reserve offers lessons in coexistence, conservation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/article\/current-affairs\/india-s-first-leopard-reserve-offers-lessons-in-coexistence-conservation-121081600009_1.html\">Business Standard<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance<\/strong>: Ecosystem conservation via community participation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis<\/strong>: Communities have long co-existed with leopards in Jhalana (Rajasthan) which is India\u2019s first leopard\u00a0reserve declared in 2016.<\/p>\n<h5><b>Benefits of leopard conservation<\/b><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Stray dog population is kept under check<\/li>\n<li>Forest acts as a temperature and pollutant sink<\/li>\n<li>Leopards scavenge carcasses of cattle that villagers would otherwise find difficult to dispose<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Issues<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Human-wildlife conflict<\/strong>: Increase in leopard population along with decline in prey population could lead to human-wildlife conflict<\/li>\n<li><strong>Accidental deaths<\/strong>: Forests cut off by state and national highways is leading to accidental deaths of leopards<\/li>\n<li><strong>Inbreeding<\/strong> among the leopards<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Developing viable animal corridors is the only solution to address all these issues.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Terms to know<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong> <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indias-leopard-count-jumps-63-in-just-4-years\/\">Indian Leopard<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Business Standard Relevance: Ecosystem conservation via community participation. Synopsis: Communities have long co-existed with leopards in Jhalana (Rajasthan) which is India\u2019s first leopard\u00a0reserve declared in 2016. Benefits of leopard conservation Stray dog population is kept under check Forest acts as a temperature and pollutant sink Leopards scavenge carcasses of cattle that villagers would otherwise&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indias-first-leopard-reserve-offers-lessons-in-coexistence-conservation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India\u2019s first leopard reserve offers lessons in coexistence, conservation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10330,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[1355,8927,216,5084,9092],"class_list":["post-126383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-biodiversity","tag-biodiversity-conservation","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-leopard","tag-leopard-reserve","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704827467},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126383","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\/10330"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}