{"id":228065,"date":"2023-02-22T19:14:21","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T13:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=228065"},"modified":"2023-02-22T19:14:21","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T13:44:21","slug":"tamil-nadu-actor-robo-shankar-fined-rs-2-5-lakh-for-keeping-alexandrine-parakeets-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/tamil-nadu-actor-robo-shankar-fined-rs-2-5-lakh-for-keeping-alexandrine-parakeets-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamil Nadu: Actor Robo Shankar fined Rs 2.5 lakh for keeping Alexandrine parakeets at home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201cTamil Nadu: Actor Robo Shankar fined Rs 2.5 lakh for keeping Alexandrine parakeets at home\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <strong>Indian Express\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>on <b>22nd February 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Tamil Nadu Wildlife Crime Control Bureau has imposed a fine of Rs 2.5 lakh on the actor for keeping two Alexandrine parakeets at his residence in Chennai.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What are Alexandrine Parakeets?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Alexandrine parakeet (Psittacula eupatria) is a medium-sized parrot in the genus Psittacula of the family Psittaculidae.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Named after:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is named after Alexander the Great, who transported numerous birds from Punjab to various European and Mediterranean countries and regions, where they were prized by the royalty, nobility and warlords.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Distribution<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: They are widespread in South and South-East Asia where they live in forests, woodlands, agricultural lands, and mangrove forests.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>IUCN Status:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Near Threatened<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Wildlife Protection Act,1972: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Schedule IV<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cTamil Nadu: Actor Robo Shankar fined Rs 2.5 lakh for keeping Alexandrine parakeets at home\u201d published in Indian Express\u00a0on 22nd February 2023 What is the News? The Tamil Nadu Wildlife Crime Control Bureau has imposed a fine of Rs 2.5 lakh on the actor for keeping two&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/tamil-nadu-actor-robo-shankar-fined-rs-2-5-lakh-for-keeping-alexandrine-parakeets-at-home\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tamil Nadu: Actor Robo Shankar fined Rs 2.5 lakh for keeping Alexandrine parakeets at home<\/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-228065","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":1704219424},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228065","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=228065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}