{"id":210337,"date":"2022-10-13T19:11:56","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T13:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=210337"},"modified":"2022-10-13T19:11:56","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T13:41:56","slug":"tamil-nadu-notifies-indias-first-slender-loris-sanctuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/tamil-nadu-notifies-indias-first-slender-loris-sanctuary\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamil Nadu notifies India\u2019s first slender loris sanctuary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article\u00a0<strong>\u201cTamil Nadu notifies India\u2019s first slender loris sanctuary\u201d <\/strong>published in<b> The Hindu <\/b>on <strong>13<sup>th <\/sup>October 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h5>What is the News?<\/h5>\n<p>In a first in the country, the Tamil Nadu government has notified the <strong>Kaduvur slender loris sanctuary<\/strong>. The sanctuary will cover 11,806 hectares in Karur and Dindigul districts.<\/p>\n<h5>What is the need for Kaduvur slender loris sanctuary?<\/h5>\n<p>The survival of the species depends on habitat improvement, conservation and mitigation of threats. There is great demand for keeping slender loris as pets. So, they are illegally smuggled.<\/p>\n<p>Habitat loss, electrocution of live wires and road accidents are other threats that have caused its populations to destabilise. So, there is a need for immediate conservation of Slender loris species.<\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/what-are-dugongs-where-is-indias-first-dugong-conservation-reserve\/\">What are dugongs, where is India\u2019s first dugong conservation reserve?<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h5>About the Slender loris<\/h5>\n<p>Slender lorises are small nocturnal mammals. They are arboreal as they spend most of their life on trees.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conservation status<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>IUCN red list<\/strong>: Endangered species<\/p>\n<p><b>CITES:\u00a0<\/b>Appendix II<\/p>\n<p><b>Wildlife (Protection) Act of India, 1972:\u00a0<\/b>Schedule I<\/p>\n<p>The species acts as a biological predator of pests in agricultural crops and benefits farmers.<\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Read more: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/primate-under-threat-why-the-slender-loris-needs-a-protected-area-in-tamil-nadus-dindigul\/\"><strong>Slender loris<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cTamil Nadu notifies India\u2019s first slender loris sanctuary\u201d published in The Hindu on 13th October 2022. What is the News? In a first in the country, the Tamil Nadu government has notified the Kaduvur slender loris sanctuary. The sanctuary will cover 11,806 hectares in Karur and Dindigul districts.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/tamil-nadu-notifies-indias-first-slender-loris-sanctuary\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tamil Nadu notifies India\u2019s first slender loris sanctuary<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"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":[10498],"class_list":["post-210337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210337","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\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}