{"id":216704,"date":"2022-12-01T19:20:43","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T13:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=216704"},"modified":"2022-12-01T19:20:43","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T13:50:43","slug":"supreme-court-floats-idea-of-project-gib-what-is-this-endangered-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/supreme-court-floats-idea-of-project-gib-what-is-this-endangered-bird\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court floats idea of \u2018Project GIB\u2019: What is this endangered bird"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cSupreme Court floats idea of \u2018Project GIB\u2019: What is this endangered bird\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> published in <\/span><b>Indian Express <\/b>on<b> 1st December 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Supreme Court has asked the Government if a \u2018Project Great Indian Bustard (GIB)\u2019 can be launched on the lines of \u2018Project Tiger\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the Great Indian Bustard?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-great-indian-bustard\/#:~:text=About%20Great%20Indian%20Bustard%3A%20It,scrublands%20on%20the%20Indian%20subcontinent.&amp;text=IUCN%20Red%20List%3A%20It%20is,birds%20left%20in%20the%20wild.\"><b>Click here to read<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<h5><b>Why is the Great Indian Bustard endangered?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Among the biggest threats to the GIBs are overhead power transmission lines. Due to their poor frontal vision, the birds can\u2019t spot the power lines from a distance and are too heavy to change course when close. Thus, they collide with the cables and die.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the Wildlife Institute of India(WII), in Rajasthan, 18 GIBs die every year after colliding with overhead power lines.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>About Supreme Court on Great Indian Bustard(GIB) conservation<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Supreme Court in 2021 ordered that all overhead power transmission lines in core and potential GIB habitats in Rajasthan and Gujarat should be made underground.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The court also sought reports from the chief secretaries of Rajasthan and Gujarat in six weeks on the installation of bird diverters (reflector-like structures strung on power cables) in priority areas.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It also asked them to assess the total length of transmission lines that need to go underground in the two states.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cSupreme Court floats idea of \u2018Project GIB\u2019: What is this endangered bird\u201d published in Indian Express on 1st December 2022. What is the News? The Supreme Court has asked the Government if a \u2018Project Great Indian Bustard (GIB)\u2019 can be launched on the lines of \u2018Project Tiger\u2019.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/supreme-court-floats-idea-of-project-gib-what-is-this-endangered-bird\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Supreme Court floats idea of \u2018Project GIB\u2019: What is this endangered bird<\/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":[10500],"class_list":["post-216704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":2,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1702636252},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216704","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=216704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}