{"id":69223,"date":"2020-11-10T18:24:47","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T12:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=69223"},"modified":"2021-01-02T14:33:55","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T09:03:55","slug":"four-more-biodiversity-heritage-sites-for-karnataka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/four-more-biodiversity-heritage-sites-for-karnataka\/","title":{"rendered":"Four More Biodiversity Heritage Sites For Karnataka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News:<\/strong> Karnataka Biodiversity Board has decided to declare four more areas in the State as biodiversity heritage sites.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>What are the four areas? <\/strong>The four areas declared as biodiversity heritage sites are:\n<ul>\n<li>Antaragange Betta in Kolar<\/li>\n<li>Aadi Narayana Swamy Betta in Chickballapur<\/li>\n<li>Mahima Ranga Betta in Nelamangala,Bengaluru and<\/li>\n<li>Urumbi area on the Kumaradhara river basin in Dakshina Kannada.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Additional Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Biodiversity heritage sites(BHS)<\/strong>: These are considered as unique and fragile ecosystems that can be marine ecosystems, coastal and inland waters, or terrestrial areas.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Criteria:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Richness of wild as well as domesticated species or intra-specific categories.<\/li>\n<li>High endemism.<\/li>\n<li>Presence of rare and threatened species, keystone species, species of evolutionary significance.<\/li>\n<li>Wild ancestors of domestic\/cultivated species or their varieties.<\/li>\n<li>Past pre-eminence of biological components represented by fossil beds and having significant cultural, ethical or aesthetic values are important for the maintenance of cultural diversity with or without a long history of human association with them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Who notifies BHS? <\/strong>Under Section-37 of Biological Diversity Act, 2002 the State Government in consultation with local bodies may notify areas of biodiversity importance as Biodiversity Heritage Sites(BHS).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Karnataka Biodiversity Board has decided to declare four more areas in the State as biodiversity heritage sites. Facts: What are the four areas? The four areas declared as biodiversity heritage sites are: Antaragange Betta in Kolar Aadi Narayana Swamy Betta in Chickballapur Mahima Ranga Betta in Nelamangala,Bengaluru and Urumbi area on the Kumaradhara river&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/four-more-biodiversity-heritage-sites-for-karnataka\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Four More Biodiversity Heritage Sites For Karnataka<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":75057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1316],"class_list":["post-69223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-public","tag-env_2","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Four-more-biodiversity-heritage-sites-for-Karnataka.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","views":{"total":251,"cached_at":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69223","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=69223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}