{"id":87247,"date":"2020-05-18T22:39:24","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T17:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=15514"},"modified":"2020-05-18T22:39:24","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T17:09:24","slug":"40-gharials-released-in-ghaghara-river-amid-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/40-gharials-released-in-ghaghara-river-amid-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"40 gharials released in Ghaghara river amid lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>Uttar Pradesh Government has released Gharials (Gavialis gangeticus) in the Ghaghara river for the conservation and protection in natural habitat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Gharial: <\/strong>It is a species of Asian crocodilian distinguished by their long, thin snouts which resembles a pot(ghara in Hindi).<\/li><li><strong>Habitat: <\/strong>They prefer to live in riverine habitats with deep, clear, fast-moving water and steep, sandy banks.<\/li><li><strong>Distribution: <\/strong>It was once found across Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal and Pakistan.However,currently it survives in several severely fragmented populations in India and Nepal.<\/li><li><strong>In India, <\/strong>Gharials are present in Son River, Girwa River, the Ganges, Mahanadi River and the Chambal River.<\/li><li><strong>Protected areas: <\/strong>National Chambal Sanctuary and Katarniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary.<\/li><li><strong>IUCN Red list: <\/strong>Critically Endangered&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972: <\/strong>Schedule I&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>CITES<\/strong>: Appendix I&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>Threat: <\/strong>Construction of Dam, barrages, and water abstraction, entanglement in fishing nets, River bed cultivation and sand mining.<\/li><li><strong>Initiatives:<\/strong> Indian government launched Project Crocodile with UNDP and FAO in 1975.It included an intensive captive rearing and breeding programme intended to revive dwindling gharial population.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Uttar Pradesh Government has released Gharials (Gavialis gangeticus) in the Ghaghara river for the conservation and protection in natural habitat. Facts: Gharial: It is a species of Asian crocodilian distinguished by their long, thin snouts which resembles a pot(ghara in Hindi). Habitat: They prefer to live in riverine habitats with deep, clear, fast-moving water&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/40-gharials-released-in-ghaghara-river-amid-lockdown\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">40 gharials released in Ghaghara river amid lockdown<\/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":[4569],"class_list":["post-87247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-gharial","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704939410},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87247","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=87247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}