{"id":29382,"date":"2018-10-26T10:25:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T04:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=29382"},"modified":"2018-10-26T10:25:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T04:55:00","slug":"cliff-habitat-needs-a-vulture-safe-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/cliff-habitat-needs-a-vulture-safe-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"Cliff habitat needs a vulture safe zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/cities\/Hyderabad\/cliff-habitat-needs-a-vulture-safe-zone\/article23906438.ece\">Cliff habitat needs a vulture safe zone<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Environment<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>News:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Conservationists observe that there is a need to augment the conservation efforts to protect Palarapu cliff vulture habitat in Kumaram Bheem Asifabad, Telangana<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><u>Important Facts:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2. The Long-billed vulture or Indian vulture is critically endangered.<\/p>\n<p>3. Palarapu cliff habitat is the only vulture habitat in Telangana<\/p>\n<p>4. According to forest officials of Telangana, the Vulture Safe Zone (VSZ) initiative of the Jatayu Conservation Breeding Centre, Pinjore needs to be implemented in Telangana to conserve vultures<\/p>\n<p>5. Vulture Safe Zone (VSZ) the natural habitat of wild vultures, of at least 100 Km radius made free of the presence of the drug Diclofenac found in animal carcasses<\/p>\n<p>6. The drug is highly toxic for vulture and has been a major reason for decline in its population<\/p>\n<p>7. The initiative includes massive nation-wide monitoring of use of Diclofenac. It also involves spreading awareness among people and various stakeholders<\/p>\n<p>8. At present, VSZ initiative is concentrated in north Indian states only- Gujarat, Jharkhand, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and Assam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cliff habitat needs a vulture safe zone Environment News: Conservationists observe that there is a need to augment the conservation efforts to protect Palarapu cliff vulture habitat in Kumaram Bheem Asifabad, Telangana Important Facts: 2. The Long-billed vulture or Indian vulture is critically endangered. 3. Palarapu cliff habitat is the only vulture habitat in Telangana&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/cliff-habitat-needs-a-vulture-safe-zone\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cliff habitat needs a vulture safe zone<\/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-29382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704938888},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29382","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=29382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}