{"id":88356,"date":"2020-07-06T20:34:42","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T15:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=16242"},"modified":"2020-07-06T20:34:42","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T15:04:42","slug":"china-makes-new-claim-in-eastern-border-with-bhutan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/china-makes-new-claim-in-eastern-border-with-bhutan\/","title":{"rendered":"China makes new claim in eastern border with Bhutan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>China has made territorial claims over Sakteng wildlife sanctuary in eastern Bhutan at an online meeting of the Global Environment Facility(GEF).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/rmZyNTZuc1iwgMLs3FIr4jo8uIseoumrYwdX0ko_t-DUL47kS3Ycil9Z9Ro6smODcZ-oQn773_1qR2A48M2M1_pWkApCBTEmFG6wT-7ghyjxw7WaGMpVbrvU4RV5ngobhbEeRmOu\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Sakteng Wildlife Sanctuary<\/strong>: It is located in Trashigang District, Eastern Bhutan.<\/li><li>It is listed as a tentative site in Bhutan&#8217;s Tentative List for UNESCO inclusion.<\/li><li>The sanctuary represents the easternmost temperate ecosystems and is part of the Eastern Himalayan subalpine conifer forests ecoregion.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Global Environment Facility(GEF): <\/strong>It is a Trust Fund established on the eve of the 1992 Rio Earth Summit.<\/li><li><strong>Aim: <\/strong>To<strong> <\/strong>help developing countries and countries with economies in transition to meet the objectives of the international environmental conventions and agreements.<\/li><li><strong>Trustee: <\/strong>World Bank serves as the GEF Trustee administering the GEF Trust Fund (contributions by donors).<\/li><li><strong>Financial Mechanism: <\/strong>GEF is a financial mechanism for five major international environmental conventions:&nbsp;<ul><li>Minamata Convention on Mercury<\/li><li>Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants(POPs),&nbsp;<\/li><li>United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity(UNCBD),&nbsp;<\/li><li>United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification(UNCCD)&nbsp;<\/li><li>United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: China has made territorial claims over Sakteng wildlife sanctuary in eastern Bhutan at an online meeting of the Global Environment Facility(GEF). Facts: Sakteng Wildlife Sanctuary: It is located in Trashigang District, Eastern Bhutan. It is listed as a tentative site in Bhutan&#8217;s Tentative List for UNESCO inclusion. The sanctuary represents the easternmost temperate ecosystems&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/china-makes-new-claim-in-eastern-border-with-bhutan\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">China makes new claim in eastern border with Bhutan<\/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":[164],"tags":[5362,2353,6058],"class_list":["post-88356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","tag-bhutan","tag-china","tag-sakteng-wildlife-sanctuary","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88356","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=88356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}