{"id":132185,"date":"2021-09-07T18:27:04","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T12:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=132185"},"modified":"2021-09-08T15:10:11","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T09:40:11","slug":"air-gun-surrender-could-be-conservations-silver-bullet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/air-gun-surrender-could-be-conservations-silver-bullet\/","title":{"rendered":"Air gun surrender could be conservation\u2019s silver bullet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What is the news?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Auranchal Pradesh has initiated the program \u2018<strong>Air gun Surrender Abhiyan<\/strong>\u2019 to check the killing of birds and animals in the region.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is \u2018Air gun Surrender Abhiyan\u2019?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In Auranchal Pradesh, hunting was a seasonal activity and limited primarily to tribal rituals. Post the proliferation of air guns and rifles, found freely in the market, hunting has increased manifold in the state.<\/p>\n<p>To control hunting and conserve wildlife, \u2018Air gun Surrender Abhiyan\u2019 was launched to surrender the air guns. Overall, 2,000 weapons have been given up voluntarily since its launch. In return, the person got a certificate of appreciation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the aim of Air gun Surrender Abhiyan\u2019?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The aim is to spread awareness about conservation and check the killing of birds and animals in their state.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> This post is based on the article \u201c<strong>Air gun surrender could be conservation\u2019s silver bullet<\/strong>\u201d published in <strong>The Times of India<\/strong> on <strong>7 September 2021<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the news? Auranchal Pradesh has initiated the program \u2018Air gun Surrender Abhiyan\u2019 to check the killing of birds and animals in the region. What is \u2018Air gun Surrender Abhiyan\u2019? In Auranchal Pradesh, hunting was a seasonal activity and limited primarily to tribal rituals. Post the proliferation of air guns and rifles, found freely&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/air-gun-surrender-could-be-conservations-silver-bullet\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Air gun surrender could be conservation\u2019s silver bullet<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10331,"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":[9592,1355,8927,8782],"class_list":["post-132185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-air-guns","tag-biodiversity","tag-biodiversity-conservation","tag-government-policies-and-interventions","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132185","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\/10331"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}