{"id":258136,"date":"2023-08-31T21:22:08","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T15:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=258136"},"modified":"2023-08-31T21:22:08","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T15:52:08","slug":"reroute-rail-track-through-gibbon-sanctuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/reroute-rail-track-through-gibbon-sanctuary\/","title":{"rendered":"Reroute rail track through gibbon sanctuary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201cReroute rail track through gibbon sanctuary<\/b><b>\u201d\u00a0 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>The Hindu on 31st August 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wildlife Institute of India (WII) <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">has proposed a solution to address the problems caused due to the route of the 1.65-km long railway track in eastern Assam.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This railway track has divided a <\/span><b>Hollongapar Gibbon Sanctuary<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> into two unequal parts.Due to this, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">hoolock gibbons are facing habitat fragmentation as the track separated gibbon populations on either side.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hence, that&#8217;s why scientists at WII have suggested constructing an artificial canopy bridge to enable the gibbons to move across the railway line.This would help them maintain their genetic diversity.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is <\/b><b>Hollongapar Gibbon Sanctuary?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Hollongapar Gibbon Sanctuary formerly known as the Gibbon Wildlife Sanctuary or Hollongapar Reserved Forest is an isolated protected area of evergreen forest located in Assam.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The sanctuary was officially constituted and renamed in 1997.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The sanctuary contains India\u2019s only gibbons \u2013 the hoolock gibbons and North-eastern India\u2019s only nocturnal primate \u2013 the Bengal slow loris.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>What are Hoolock Gibbons?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/china-event-raises-concern-over-indias-only-ape\/\"><b>Click Here to read<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cReroute rail track through gibbon sanctuary\u201d\u00a0 published in The Hindu on 31st August 2023 What is the News? Wildlife Institute of India (WII) has proposed a solution to address the problems caused due to the route of the 1.65-km long railway track in eastern Assam. This railway&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/reroute-rail-track-through-gibbon-sanctuary\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reroute rail track through gibbon sanctuary<\/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-258136","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\/258136","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=258136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}