{"id":253968,"date":"2023-07-29T21:10:19","date_gmt":"2023-07-29T15:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=253968"},"modified":"2023-07-29T21:10:19","modified_gmt":"2023-07-29T15:40:19","slug":"land-use-changes-putting-rocky-addresses-of-animals-under-stress-in-sahyadri-plateau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/land-use-changes-putting-rocky-addresses-of-animals-under-stress-in-sahyadri-plateau\/","title":{"rendered":"Land-use changes putting rocky addresses of animals under stress in Sahyadri plateau"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201cLand-use changes putting rocky addresses<\/b> <b>of animals under stress in Sahyadri plateau\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 published in <\/span><b>The Hindu on 29th July 2023.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to a study, rapid shift from traditional local grain cultivation to monoculture plantations of mango and cashew in the Sahyadri plateaus of Maharashtra is impacting elusive amphibians, insects, and reptiles that live under a crop of loose rocks.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About the study:<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A team of scientists investigated how animals, from ants to snakes are responding to land-use changes in the loose rocks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scientists focused on several animals, including the white-striped viper gecko, Seshachari\u2019s caecilian, saw-scaled viper, ants, spiders, and scorpions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These animals seek refuge among loose rocks which protect them from extreme weather conditions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, the rapidly changing agricultural trends such as abandonment of traditional local grain cultivation and the establishment of mango and cashew monoculture plantations is leading to the destruction of natural plateaus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For instance, the r<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">apid expansion of mango orchards has resulted in the conversion of more than 25,000 hectares of lateritic plateaus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This has impacted <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">elusive amphibians, insects, and reptiles that live under a crop of these loose rocks.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cLand-use changes putting rocky addresses of animals under stress in Sahyadri plateau\u201d\u00a0 published in The Hindu on 29th July 2023. What is the News? According to a study, rapid shift from traditional local grain cultivation to monoculture plantations of mango and cashew in the Sahyadri plateaus of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/land-use-changes-putting-rocky-addresses-of-animals-under-stress-in-sahyadri-plateau\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Land-use changes putting rocky addresses of animals under stress in Sahyadri plateau<\/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-253968","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":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253968","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=253968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}