{"id":126721,"date":"2021-08-17T20:02:35","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T14:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=126721"},"modified":"2021-08-17T20:02:35","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T14:32:35","slug":"in-karur-a-conservation-dilemma-regarding-the-slender-loris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/in-karur-a-conservation-dilemma-regarding-the-slender-loris\/","title":{"rendered":"In Karur, a conservation dilemma regarding the slender loris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/blog\/forests\/in-karur-a-conservation-dilemma-regarding-the-slender-loris-78489\">Down to Earth<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h5><strong>What is the news?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>The district forest officer (DFO) of Karur district has recently submitted a proposal for implementing a species recovery programme to protect and improve the population of the endangered slender loris.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Threats to the species<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Since there is great demand for keeping these animal as pets, they are illegally smuggled. Habitat loss, electrocution of live wires and road accidents are other threats that have caused its populations to destabilise.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.downtoearth.org.in\/library\/large\/2021-08-16\/0.32311400_1629126360_slender-loris.jpg?resize=750%2C499&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Photo: Wikipedia\" width=\"750\" height=\"499\" \/><\/p>\n<h5><strong>About Slender loris<\/strong>:<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Slender loris (<em>Loris tardigradus<\/em>) is secretive and has <strong>nocturnal<\/strong> habits. It usually travels from the canopy of one tree to another.<\/li>\n<li>Commonly found in the <strong>tropical scrub and deciduous forests<\/strong> as well as the dense hedgerow plantations bordering farmlands of <strong>Southern India<\/strong> and <strong>Sri Lanka.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It has been listed as \u2018<strong>Endangered<\/strong>\u2019 by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature<\/li>\n<li>It is under <strong>Schedule I of the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972,<\/strong> to provide the highest level of legal protection<\/li>\n<li>They are usually solitary, but sometimes found in pairs<\/li>\n<li>It is believed that these animals have some <strong>medicinal properties<\/strong>, they are captured and sold.<\/li>\n<li>Habitat loss, electrocution of live wires and road accidents are other threats that have caused its populations to dwindle<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Down to Earth What is the news? The district forest officer (DFO) of Karur district has recently submitted a proposal for implementing a species recovery programme to protect and improve the population of the endangered slender loris. Threats to the species Since there is great demand for keeping these animal as pets, they are&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/in-karur-a-conservation-dilemma-regarding-the-slender-loris\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In Karur, a conservation dilemma regarding the slender loris<\/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":[1566,4182,9],"tags":[1355,8927,9110],"class_list":["post-126721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-biodiversity","tag-biodiversity-conservation","tag-slender-loris","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704709643},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126721","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=126721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}