{"id":218845,"date":"2022-12-17T19:44:40","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T14:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=218845"},"modified":"2022-12-17T19:44:40","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T14:14:40","slug":"himalayan-fritillary-among-29-new-threatened-species-in-india-iucn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/himalayan-fritillary-among-29-new-threatened-species-in-india-iucn\/","title":{"rendered":"Himalayan Fritillary among 29 new threatened species in India: IUCN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source: <\/b>The post is based on the article<\/span> \u201cHimalayan Fritillary among 29 new threatened species in India: IUCN\u201d <\/b>published in <\/span>Business Standard on 16th December 2022<\/b><\/p>\n

What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n

As per the IUCN Red List unveiled during the COP15 biodiversity conference in Montreal (Canada)<\/span>, <\/span>White-cheeked Dancing Frog, Andaman Smoothhound shark and Yellow Himalayan Fritillary are among 29 new species assessed in India that are under threat.<\/span><\/p>\n

What are the three species that are under threat according to IUCN?<\/b><\/h5>\n
Dancing Frog (Micrixalus candidus)<\/b><\/h6>\n

IUCN Status:<\/b> Endangered.<\/span><\/p>\n

Found in<\/b>: It is only known from a small range with an extent of occurrence of 167 square kilometers in the Western Ghats of Karnataka..<\/span><\/p>\n

Threats: <\/b>They are endangered with extinction due to loss of their habitat, pollution, changes in temperature, diseases, pests, and invasive species among others.<\/span><\/p>\n

Note: <\/b>As per reports, 30% of dancing frogs are found to live in regions that are not protected by the government.<\/span><\/p>\n

Andaman Smoothhound (Mustelus andamanensis)\u00a0<\/b><\/h5>\n

IUCN Status:<\/b> Vulnerable<\/span><\/p>\n

Found in:<\/b> It is currently only known from the Andaman Sea and is endemic to India<\/span><\/p>\n

Threats<\/b>: It is subject to fish pressure across its spatial and depth range. It is taken as a bycatch in industrial and artisanal fisheries with multiple fishing gears including trawl, longline, and gillnet.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yellow Himalayan Fritillary plant (Fritillaria cirrhosa)<\/b><\/h5>\n

IUCN Status: <\/b>Vulnerable<\/span><\/p>\n

Geographical distribution<\/b>: It is mostly found in the Himalayas. It occurs in Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal and Pakistan.<\/span><\/p>\n

Threats:<\/b> The species is threatened due to unorganized harvest, over-extraction, unsustainable and premature harvesting of bulbs, coupled with illegal hidden markets.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article \u201cHimalayan Fritillary among 29 new threatened species in India: IUCN\u201d published in Business Standard on 16th December 2022 What is the News? As per the IUCN Red List unveiled during the COP15 biodiversity conference in Montreal (Canada), White-cheeked Dancing Frog, Andaman Smoothhound shark and Yellow Himalayan Fritillary… Continue reading Himalayan Fritillary among 29 new threatened species in India: IUCN<\/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":[10503],"class_list":["post-218845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-business-standard","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1703844732},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218845","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=218845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}