{"id":31251,"date":"2018-10-27T12:44:12","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T07:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=31251"},"modified":"2018-10-27T12:44:12","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T07:14:12","slug":"week-long-tiger-census-begins-in-odisha-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/week-long-tiger-census-begins-in-odisha-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Week-long tiger census begins in Odisha today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/other-states\/week-long-tiger-census-begins-in-odisha-today\/article22769660.ece\"><b>Week-long tiger census begins in Odisha today<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Week-long tiger census in Odhisa will begin on 16<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> February 2018<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>About the Census:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The week-long census that coincides with the national tiger census will be carried out in all forest divisions. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Both direct and indirect methods will be used to ascertain the status of tigers in the State.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unlike earlier, the Odhisa Government has brought the entire Similipal Tiger Reserve, which houses the State\u2019s largest tiger population, under the scope of the census.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After completion of the week-long census operation, the data will be shared with the Union Ministry of Environment and Forest.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Additional Information:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On January 19, a dolphin census was conducted across six coastal divisions of Odhisa<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The number of endangered Irrawaddy dolphins in the Chilika Lake was 114.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The dolphin population in the State rose to 469 from 450 in 2015.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> A total of 307 dolphins were sighted in the Bhitarakanika National Park.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Of these, 108 were Indo-Pacific dolphins and 62 were Indian humpbacks.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Week-long tiger census begins in Odisha today Context: Week-long tiger census in Odhisa will begin on 16th February 2018 About the Census: The week-long census that coincides with the national tiger census will be carried out in all forest divisions. Both direct and indirect methods will be used to ascertain the status of tigers in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/week-long-tiger-census-begins-in-odisha-today\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Week-long tiger census begins in Odisha today<\/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-31251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704858037},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31251","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=31251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}