{"id":178265,"date":"2022-04-08T21:12:06","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T15:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=178265"},"modified":"2022-04-08T21:12:06","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T15:42:06","slug":"indian-tent-turtles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indian-tent-turtles\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Tent Turtles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Minister of Environment, Forest &amp; Climate Change has informed Rajya Sabha that there are no reports to indicate that the Indian tent turtle is on the verge of extinction due to illegal mining in Narmada River.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is an Indian Tent Turtle?<\/b><\/h5>\n<figure id=\"attachment_178269\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-178269\" style=\"width: 444px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-178269 \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1920px-Indian_tent_turtle_Pangshura_tentoria_tentoria.jpeg?resize=444%2C296&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Indian tent turtle\" width=\"444\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1920px-Indian_tent_turtle_Pangshura_tentoria_tentoria.jpeg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1920px-Indian_tent_turtle_Pangshura_tentoria_tentoria.jpeg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1920px-Indian_tent_turtle_Pangshura_tentoria_tentoria.jpeg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1920px-Indian_tent_turtle_Pangshura_tentoria_tentoria.jpeg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1920px-Indian_tent_turtle_Pangshura_tentoria_tentoria.jpeg?resize=1536%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1920px-Indian_tent_turtle_Pangshura_tentoria_tentoria.jpeg?resize=1568%2C1045&amp;ssl=1 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-178269\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Wikipedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b>Indian tent turtle<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pangshura tentoria<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) is a species of turtle in the family Geoemydidae.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Conservation status<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>IUCN Status:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Least Concern<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Wildlife Protection Act,1972:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Schedule 1<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>CITES:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Appendix II<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Geographical Range: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The species is endemic to India and Bangladesh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Habitat:<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The preferred habitats are freshwater rivers and swamps.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Threats<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Due to the attractive appearance of the species, they are illegally traded in the pet market.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cIndian Tent Turtles\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> published in<\/span><b> PIB<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on <\/span><b>7th April 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? The Minister of Environment, Forest &amp; Climate Change has informed Rajya Sabha that there are no reports to indicate that the Indian tent turtle is on the verge of extinction due to illegal mining in Narmada River. What is an Indian Tent Turtle? Indian tent turtle (Pangshura tentoria) is a species&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indian-tent-turtles\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Indian Tent Turtles<\/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":[3590],"class_list":["post-178265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178265","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=178265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}