{"id":40745,"date":"2019-01-19T18:14:40","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T12:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=40745"},"modified":"2019-01-19T18:14:40","modified_gmt":"2019-01-19T12:44:40","slug":"rajasthans-state-bird-may-be-extinct-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/rajasthans-state-bird-may-be-extinct-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Rajasthan\u2019s State bird may be extinct soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/other-states\/rajasthans-state-bird-may-be-extinct-soon\/article26030943.ece\"><strong>Rajasthan\u2019s State bird may be extinct soon<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>News<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The state bird of Rajasthan, Great Indian Bustard (GIB) has been declining in numbers over the past several years<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Important Facts<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Great Indian Bustard<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The Great Indian Bustard, one of the heaviest flying birds, was categorised as \u201ccritically endangered\u201d by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in 2011<\/li>\n<li>Habitat in India: Sultanpur Bird Sanctuary (Gurgaon), Desert National Park (Rajasthan) and the Lala-Parjau sanctuary in western Kutch (Gujarat)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><em>Concerns:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>With rampant hunting and declining grasslands, the population of the Great Indian Bustard has dwindled.<\/li>\n<li>Project Bustard launched in 2013 by the Rajasthan government have not made significant progress.<\/li>\n<li>No progress has yet been made on the proposal for establishing a captive breeding centre at Sorsan in Kota district and a hatchery in Jaisalmer\u2019s Mokhala village for conservation<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><em>Suggestions<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>A group of wildlife conservationists has advocated setting up an incubation unit at Jaisalmer district\u2019s Sudasri (considered the sanctum sanctorum of the Desert National Park) so as to step up recruitment rate of the bird species.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rajasthan\u2019s State bird may be extinct soon News The state bird of Rajasthan, Great Indian Bustard (GIB) has been declining in numbers over the past several years Important Facts Great Indian Bustard The Great Indian Bustard, one of the heaviest flying birds, was categorised as \u201ccritically endangered\u201d by the International Union for Conservation of Nature&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/rajasthans-state-bird-may-be-extinct-soon\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rajasthan\u2019s State bird may be extinct soon<\/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-40745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704882089},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40745","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=40745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}