{"id":87285,"date":"2020-06-19T19:29:51","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T13:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=15982"},"modified":"2020-06-19T19:29:51","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T13:59:51","slug":"world-crocodile-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/world-crocodile-day\/","title":{"rendered":"World Crocodile Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> World Crocodile Day is being celebrated on the 17th June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Crocodile species found in India:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mugger or Marsh Crocodile:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Habitat: <\/strong>It is a freshwater crocodile native to southern Iran to the Indian subcontinent.It is extinct in Bhutan and Myanmar.<\/li><li><strong>IUCN Status: <\/strong>Vulnerable<\/li><li><strong>CITES:<\/strong> Appendix I<\/li><li><strong>Threats: a) <\/strong>Habitat destruction <strong>b) <\/strong>Entanglement and drowning in fishing equipment and <strong>c) <\/strong>Increasing incidents of conflict with humans.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Estuarine or Saltwater Crocodile:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>It is considered as the Earth\u2019s largest living crocodile species native to saltwater habitats and brackish wetlands.<\/li><li><strong>Habitat: <\/strong>It is found throughout the east coast of India, Southeast Asia and northern Australia.<\/li><li><strong>IUCN Status: <\/strong>Least Concern<\/li><li><strong>Threats: a) <\/strong>Illegal hunting <strong>b) <\/strong>habitat loss and <strong>c) <\/strong>antipathy toward the species because of its reputation as a man-eater.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Gharial:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><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>Protected areas<\/strong>: National Chambal Sanctuary and Katarniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary.<\/li><li><strong>IUCN Status:<\/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>Threats<\/strong>: Construction of Dam, barrages, and water abstraction, entanglement in fishing nets, River bed cultivation and sand mining.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: World Crocodile Day is being celebrated on the 17th June. Facts: Crocodile species found in India: Mugger or Marsh Crocodile:&nbsp; Habitat: It is a freshwater crocodile native to southern Iran to the Indian subcontinent.It is extinct in Bhutan and Myanmar. IUCN Status: Vulnerable CITES: Appendix I Threats: a) Habitat destruction b) Entanglement and drowning&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/world-crocodile-day\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">World Crocodile Day<\/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":[5030],"class_list":["post-87285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-world-crocodile-day","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700776176,"cached_date":1704943275},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87285","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=87285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}