{"id":242391,"date":"2023-05-15T19:24:27","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T13:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=242391"},"modified":"2023-05-15T19:24:27","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T13:54:27","slug":"mp-forest-dept-cant-permit-translocation-of-baobab-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/mp-forest-dept-cant-permit-translocation-of-baobab-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"MP: Forest dept can\u2019t permit translocation of Baobab tree"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201cMP: Forest dept can\u2019t permit translocation of Baobab tree\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> published in <\/span><b>The Hindu <\/b>on <b>15th May 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Madhya Pradesh government has decided that the forest department cannot give permission to translocate Dhar\u2019s famed Baobab trees.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What are Baobab Trees?<\/b><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_242408\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-242408\" style=\"width: 478px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-242408\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Baobab-Trees.png?resize=478%2C452&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Baobab Tree\" width=\"478\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Baobab-Trees.png?w=614&amp;ssl=1 614w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Baobab-Trees.png?resize=300%2C284&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-242408\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Audubon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Baobabs are long-lived deciduous, small to large trees from 20 to 100 ft tall with broad trunks and compact tops.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The trees have a distinctive appearance. All baobabs look like they have been turned upside down, with their roots reaching for the sky.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Baobab trees can live for more than a thousand years and are perhaps among the oldest living things on the planet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Distribution of Baobab Trees:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Baobab trees are native <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to mainland Africa and the island country of Madagascar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mandu, in Dhar district of Madhya Pradesh, is perhaps the only place in India where baobab trees are found in abundance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Aside from Mandu where it is most abundant, baobab trees have also been recorded in Prayagraj in Uttar Pradesh, Wai in Maharashtra and some other places.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Uses: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The tree has medicinal properties and provides some income for the Bhil community, which sells its fruits and seeds to local traders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Significance: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Baobabs are known as the <\/span><b>tree of life<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> because it is able to store water from the rains in their vast trunk and produce a nutrient-dense fruit in the dry season when the land turns arid<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cMP: Forest dept can\u2019t permit translocation of Baobab tree\u201d published in The Hindu on 15th May 2023 What is the News? The Madhya Pradesh government has decided that the forest department cannot give permission to translocate Dhar\u2019s famed Baobab trees. What are Baobab Trees? Baobabs are long-lived&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/mp-forest-dept-cant-permit-translocation-of-baobab-tree\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MP: Forest dept can\u2019t permit translocation of Baobab tree<\/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":[10498],"class_list":["post-242391","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":{"total":2,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1702116872},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242391","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=242391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}