{"id":87243,"date":"2020-05-14T18:35:53","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T13:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=15449"},"modified":"2020-05-14T18:35:53","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T13:05:53","slug":"tiger-population-in-sunderbans-rises-to-96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/tiger-population-in-sunderbans-rises-to-96\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiger population in Sunderbans rises to 96"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>As per the latest census conducted by West Bengal Forest Department, the tiger count in the Sundarbans for 2019-20 has gone up to 96 from 88 in 2018-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Sundarbans: <\/strong>It is a vast contiguous mangrove forest ecosystem in the coastal region of Bay of Bengal spread over India and Bangladesh on the delta of the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna rivers.<\/li><li>The Sunderbans Delta is the only mangrove forest in the world inhabited by tigers.<\/li><li>Indian Sundarbans constitute over 60% of the country\u2019s total mangrove forest area and was recognised as UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987.<\/li><li>It is also the 27th Ramsar Site in India and is now the largest protected wetland in the country.<\/li><li>It is home to rare and globally threatened species such as the critically endangered northern river terrapin, the endangered Irrawaddy dolphin, vulnerable fishing cat and Endangered Royal Bengal Tiger.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:As per the latest census conducted by West Bengal Forest Department, the tiger count in the Sundarbans for 2019-20 has gone up to 96 from 88 in 2018-19. Facts: Sundarbans: It is a vast contiguous mangrove forest ecosystem in the coastal region of Bay of Bengal spread over India and Bangladesh on the delta of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/tiger-population-in-sunderbans-rises-to-96\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tiger population in Sunderbans rises to 96<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9326,"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":[4988,2584],"class_list":["post-87243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-sunderbans","tag-tigers","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700774223,"cached_date":1704776864},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87243","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\/9326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}