{"id":28409,"date":"2018-10-24T12:17:26","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T06:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=28409"},"modified":"2018-10-24T12:17:26","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T06:47:26","slug":"climate-change-threatens-nilgiri-tahr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/climate-change-threatens-nilgiri-tahr\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate change threatens Nilgiri tahr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/energy-and-environment\/climate-change-threatens-the-nilgiri-tahr\/article24392414.ece\">Climate change threatens Nilgiri tahr<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>News:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to a recent study published in <em>Ecological Engineering<\/em>, Niligiri tahrs could lose approximately 60% of their habitats from the 2030s<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Important Facts:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><u>Highlights of the study:<\/u><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>To predict affect of climate change on tahr habitats, scientists had mapped tahr distribution<\/li>\n<li>Next they had used using climatic factors of these locations to predict where tahrs would be able to survive, given current and future climate change scenarios.<\/li>\n<li>They found that areas such as Chinnar, Eravikulam and Parambikulam in Kerala where there is high tahr population will still be stable habitats under different climate change scenarios.<\/li>\n<li>However, regions such as Kalakkad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve in Tamil Nadu and the wildlife sanctuaries of Peppara, Neyyar, Schenduruny and Srivilliputhur, could experience severe habitat loss from 2030s onwards.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><u>Status of Nilgiri Tahr:<\/u><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>2500 left in wild<\/li>\n<li>Vulnerable to local extinction<\/li>\n<li>According to IUCN, their population shows a decreasing trend<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li><u>Conservation<\/u> <u>Efforts<\/u>:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>Scientists of National Board for Wildlife had drafted a tahr recovery plan in 2010.<\/li>\n<li>However, only the Eravikulam and Mukurthi National Parks stress on tahr-centred conservation activities in their management plans. However, the progress in implementation has been questioned by environmentalists<\/li>\n<li>Environmentalists have called for a comprehensive species management plan for conservation of tahr<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate change threatens Nilgiri tahr News: According to a recent study published in Ecological Engineering, Niligiri tahrs could lose approximately 60% of their habitats from the 2030s Important Facts: Highlights of the study: To predict affect of climate change on tahr habitats, scientists had mapped tahr distribution Next they had used using climatic factors of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/climate-change-threatens-nilgiri-tahr\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Climate change threatens Nilgiri tahr<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704684121},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28409","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}