{"id":13886,"date":"2020-02-21T16:48:15","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T11:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=13886"},"modified":"2020-02-21T16:48:15","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T11:18:15","slug":"international-protection-for-great-indian-bustard-bengal-florican-and-asian-elephant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/international-protection-for-great-indian-bustard-bengal-florican-and-asian-elephant\/","title":{"rendered":"International protection for Great Indian Bustard, Bengal Florican and Asian Elephant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> Great Indian Bustard, Asian Elephant and Bengal Florican have been classified as &#8220;endangered migratory species&#8221; by UN&#8217;s Convention on Conservation of Migratory Species<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS)<\/strong> <strong>or the Bonn Convention<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>It is an intergovernmental treaty, concluded under the aegis of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP). It acts as a framework convention and encourages its States Parties to conclude global or regional agreements.<\/li><li>It was signed in 1979 in Bonn, Germany, and entered into force in 1983<\/li><li><strong>Aim: <\/strong>conservation and sustainable use of migratory animals and their habitats<\/li><li>It is the only global convention specializing in the conservation of migratory species, their habitats and migration routes.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Appendices of CMS:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Appendix I \u2013 Threatened Migratory Species<\/li><li>Appendix II \u2013 Migratory Species requiring international cooperation<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Parties to the Convention<\/strong>: 129 parties including India<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Great Indian Bustard, Asian Elephant, and Bengal Florican<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<table class=\"wp-block-table\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Species<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>IUCN Status<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Wildlife (Protection) Act Status<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Note<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Great Indian Bustard<\/strong><\/td><td>Critically Endangered<\/td><td>Schedule I<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Asian Elephant<\/strong><\/td><td>Endangered<\/td><td>Schedule I<\/td><td>GoI declared Indian elephant as National Heritage Animal<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Bengal Florican<\/strong><\/td><td>Critically Endangered<\/td><td>Schedule I<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Great Indian Bustard, Asian Elephant and Bengal Florican have been classified as &#8220;endangered migratory species&#8221; by UN&#8217;s Convention on Conservation of Migratory Species Facts: Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS) or the Bonn Convention It is an intergovernmental treaty, concluded under the aegis of the United Nations Environmental Programme&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/international-protection-for-great-indian-bustard-bengal-florican-and-asian-elephant\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">International protection for Great Indian Bustard, Bengal Florican and Asian Elephant<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[4912],"class_list":["post-13886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-cms","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700777042,"cached_date":1704930134},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13886","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}