{"id":31206,"date":"2018-10-27T12:32:50","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T07:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=31206"},"modified":"2018-10-27T12:32:50","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T07:02:50","slug":"guards-get-modern-weapons-to-fight-poaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/guards-get-modern-weapons-to-fight-poaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Guards get modern weapons to fight poaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/guards-get-modern-weapons-to-fight-poaching\/article22793099.ece\"><b>Guards get modern weapons to fight poaching<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a major initiative for wildlife protection, the forest guards in Assam were given modern weapons to check poaching of rhinos, tigers and other wild animals.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What is in news?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Altogether 74 rhinos have been killed by poachers since 2015 and 316 poachers arrested during 2015-17.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thus, <\/span><b>wildlife fast-track courts <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">have been set up in <\/span><b>10 districts <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and such courts have been set up for the first time in the country.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The government launched a new programme &#8211; <\/span><b>modernisation of arms and equipment for protection, rescue and rehabilitation of rhinos, tigers and other wildlife.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the plan, forest guards were given 954 SLRs, 272 INSAS rifles, 133 rifles of .12 bore, 20 of 9 MM pistols and 91 Ghatak rifles.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Wildlife sanctuaries in Assam:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Assam has five national parks and <\/span><b>19 wildlife sanctuaries.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is home to more than <\/span><b>91% of Indian rhinos (2,431 rhinos as per 2015 census).<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is also home to <\/span><b>167 tigers, 248 leopards, 1,169 swamp deer <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">besides a large number of wild buffaloes, different varieties of deer and other animals.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guards get modern weapons to fight poaching Context: In a major initiative for wildlife protection, the forest guards in Assam were given modern weapons to check poaching of rhinos, tigers and other wild animals. What is in news? Altogether 74 rhinos have been killed by poachers since 2015 and 316 poachers arrested during 2015-17. Thus,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/guards-get-modern-weapons-to-fight-poaching\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Guards get modern weapons to fight poaching<\/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-31206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704909191},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31206","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=31206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}