{"id":225058,"date":"2023-02-04T19:30:17","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T14:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=225058"},"modified":"2023-02-22T11:43:09","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T06:13:09","slug":"yaya-tso-to-become-ladakhs-first-biodiversity-heritage-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/yaya-tso-to-become-ladakhs-first-biodiversity-heritage-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Yaya Tso to become Ladakh&#8217;s first biodiversity heritage site"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201cYaya Tso to become Ladakh&#8217;s first biodiversity heritage site\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> Livemint <\/b>on <b>2nd February 2023.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yaya Tso has been proposed as Ladakh\u2019s first biodiversity heritage site(BHS).<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is Yaya Tso?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yaya Tso is located in Ladakh. It is known as a birds&#8217; paradise for its beautiful lake located at an altitude of 4,820 metres.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The lake could be reached from Mahe monastery on the way to Tsomoriri lake after driving up to the nunnery and then crossing a small mountain pass.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Significance<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: It is a nesting habitat for a large number of birds and animals, such as the bar-headed goose, black-necked crane and brahminy duck.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 It also has the distinction of being one of the highest breeding sites of the black-necked crane in India.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is a Biodiversity Heritage Site(BHS)?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/four-more-biodiversity-heritage-sites-for-karnataka\/#:~:text=Biodiversity%20heritage%20sites(BHS)%3A,species%20or%20intra%2Dspecific%20categories.\"><b>Click Here to read<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>What is the SECURE Himalaya Project?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/secure-himalaya-project-unique-model-to-tie-snow-leopard-tourism-with-habitat-protection\/\"><b>Click Here to read<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cYaya Tso to become Ladakh&#8217;s first biodiversity heritage site\u201d published in Livemint on 2nd February 2023. What is the News? Yaya Tso has been proposed as Ladakh\u2019s first biodiversity heritage site(BHS). What is Yaya Tso? Yaya Tso is located in Ladakh. It is known as a birds&#8217;&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/yaya-tso-to-become-ladakhs-first-biodiversity-heritage-site\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yaya Tso to become Ladakh&#8217;s first biodiversity heritage site<\/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":[1566,4182,11211,9],"tags":[10501],"class_list":["post-225058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-places-in-news","category-public","tag-live-mint","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225058","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=225058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}