{"id":2477,"date":"2018-12-22T11:20:46","date_gmt":"2018-12-22T05:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=2477"},"modified":"2018-12-22T11:20:46","modified_gmt":"2018-12-22T05:50:46","slug":"government-launches-asiatic-lion-conservation-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/government-launches-asiatic-lion-conservation-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Government launches Asiatic Lion Conservation Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Relevant for prelims and GS paper 3:-<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>New Delhi, Dec 20 (IANS):<\/strong>\u00a0The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change on Thursday launched the &#8216;Asiatic Lion Conservation Project&#8217; with an aim to protect and conserve the world&#8217;s last ranging free population of Asiatic Lion and its associated ecosystem.<\/li>\n<li>The decision came two days after three asiatic lions were run over by a goods train in Gir.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Asiatic Lion Conservation Project will strengthen the ongoing measures for conservation and recovery of Asiatic Lion with the help of state-of-the-art techniques, regular scientific research studies, disease management, modern surveillance techniques,&#8221; Union Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan said at a review meeting.<\/li>\n<li>The minister said the total budget of the project for 3 years will be funded through a Centrally sponsored scheme, the Development of Wildlife Habitat, with the contributing ratio of 60:40 for central and state share.<\/li>\n<li>Asiatic Lions which once ranged from Persia (Iran) to Palamau in Eastern India had almost been driven to extinction by indiscriminate hunting and habitat loss.<\/li>\n<li>A single population of less than 50 lions persisted in the Gir forests of Gujarat by late 1890&#8217;s. With stringent protection offered by the state and the Central governments, Asiatic lions have increased to the current population of over 500.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevant for prelims and GS paper 3:- New Delhi, Dec 20 (IANS):\u00a0The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[817,392],"class_list":["post-2477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-studies-ii","tag-gs","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2477"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2479,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477\/revisions\/2479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}