{"id":86888,"date":"2019-07-23T16:34:24","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T11:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=8365"},"modified":"2019-07-23T16:34:24","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T11:04:24","slug":"odisha-renews-effort-to-revive-gharial-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/odisha-renews-effort-to-revive-gharial-population\/","title":{"rendered":"Odisha renews effort to revive gharial population"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Odisha has released five gharials into the\nSatkosia gorge of Mahanadi- the southernmost limit of gharials\u2019 home range in\nIndia.<\/li><li>Odisha is the only State in India having all\nthree species of crocodile\u2014 gharial, mugger and saltwater crocodile.<\/li><li>Gharial is a species of crocodile. It derives\nits name from ghara, an Indian word for pot because of a bulbous knob present\nat the end of their snout.<\/li><li>It is listed as \u201cCritically Endangered\u201d in the\nIUCN Red List. Presently, the wild populations of gharials can only be found in\nBangladesh, India and Nepal.<\/li><li>In India, Gharials are present in Son River, Girwa\nRiver, the Ganges, Mahanadi River and the Chambal River.<\/li><li>The major threat to gharials in India include:\na) construction of Dam, barrages, and water abstraction, b) entanglement in\nfishing nets, c) River bed cultivation and d) sand mining. <\/li><li>The National Chambal Sanctuary (Madhya Pradesh,\nRajasthan and Uttar Pradesh) and Ken Gharial Wildlife Sanctuary (Madhya\nPradesh) are wildlife sanctuaries in India that are dedicated to conservation\nand breeding programs of Gharial. <\/li><li>The Indian government had initiated Project\nCrocodile with collaboration with UNDP and FAO in 1975. It included an\nintensive captive rearing and breeding programme intended to revive dwindling\ngharial population. <\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Odisha has released five gharials into the Satkosia gorge of Mahanadi- the southernmost limit of gharials\u2019 home range in India. Odisha is the only State in India having all three species of crocodile\u2014 gharial, mugger and saltwater crocodile. Gharial is a species of crocodile. It derives its name from ghara, an Indian word for pot&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/odisha-renews-effort-to-revive-gharial-population\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Odisha renews effort to revive gharial population<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[4569],"class_list":["post-86888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-gharial","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704671803},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86888","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=86888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}