{"id":87314,"date":"2020-07-20T09:24:48","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T03:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=16456"},"modified":"2020-07-20T09:24:48","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T03:54:48","slug":"mobile-app-kurma-helps-save-turtles-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/mobile-app-kurma-helps-save-turtles-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile app KURMA helps save turtles in India"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>Union Environment Minister has hailed the KURMA mobile application as a unique tool for tracking and reporting Indian turtles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>KURMA App: <\/strong>It is aimed at turtle conservation by providing users a database to identify a species but also provides the location of the nearest rescue centre for turtles across the country.<\/li><li><strong>Developed by: <\/strong>The application has been developed by the Indian Turtle Conservation Action Network(ITCAN) in collaboration with the Turtle Survival Alliance-India and Wildlife Conservation Society-India.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Indian Turtle Conservation Action Network (ITCAN): <\/strong>It is a citizen science initiative launched to provide a platform for the exchange of information on turtles and to provide assistance to enforcement agencies \/ forest departments.<\/li><li><strong>Turtle Survival Alliance(TSA)<\/strong>: It was formed in 2001 as an International Union for Conservation of Nature(IUCN) partnership for sustainable captive management of freshwater turtles and tortoises.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Union Environment Minister has hailed the KURMA mobile application as a unique tool for tracking and reporting Indian turtles. Facts: KURMA App: It is aimed at turtle conservation by providing users a database to identify a species but also provides the location of the nearest rescue centre for turtles across the country. Developed by:&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/mobile-app-kurma-helps-save-turtles-in-india\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mobile app KURMA helps save turtles in India<\/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":[5060,5061],"class_list":["post-87314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-kurma-app","tag-turtles","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704689219},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87314","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=87314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}