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Singalila National Park- Introduction of Red Pandas
Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park recently launched a programme to introduce 20 Red Pandas in around five years to the Singalila National Park. About Singalila National Park Singalila National Park is a highly protected area, located at the Singalila Ridge in Darjeeling district of West Bengal. It is the highest altitude in the state. This park ..
Month: Current Affairs - July, 2022
Category: Environment Current Affairs
Topics: Chinese red panda • Giant Panda • Himalayan red panda • Introduction of Red Pandas • IUCN Red List • Red Panda • Red Panda Conservation Breeding Programme • Singalila National Park
Aardvark Calf
A zoo in Cheshire, United Kingdom witnessed the birth of an aardvark calf in January 2022, for the first time in its 90-year history. Highlights It’s a girl aardvark, and they are “over the moon”. Staff have named the aardvark ‘Dobby’ because wrinkled, hairless skin and dangling ears of the calf seemed to remind of ..
Month: Current Affairs - February, 2022
Category: Environment Current Affairs
Topics: Aardvark Calf • Female mammals • IUCN Red List • nocturnal animals • United Kingdom
A.P: Mass mortality of spot-billed pelicans
Andhra Pradesh State Forest Department has approached experts from Wildlife Institute of India (WII-Deharadun), Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) and Zoological Survey of India (ZSI-Kolkata), for preventing mass mortality of spot-billed pelicans in Naupada swamp at Telineelapuram, Srikakulam district. Key points Telineelapuram is a designated Important Bird Area (IBA), where pelicans have been succumbing to ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2022
Category: Environment Current Affairs • States Current Affairs
Topics: Andhra Pradesh • Grey Pelicans • IUCN Red List • Mass mortality of spot-billed pelicans • Naupada Swamp • Spot-billed Pelicans
Earth’s sixth mass extinction
As per a report published in Biological Reviews, Sixth Mass Extinction crisis is underway on the Planet Earth. It could have already lost around 13 percent of its total species. Mass extinction on Earth In the past Earth has witnessed five mass extinctions. The last mass extinction was about 65 million years, that wiped out ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2022
Category: Environment Current Affairs
Topics: Anthropocene extinction. • Dinosaurs • Earth's sixth mass extinction • Holocene extinction • IUCN Red List
Gulabo: India’s oldest sloth bear
On January 10, 2022, India’s oldest sloth bear, named Gulabo, died at the Van Vihar National Park and Zoo in Bhopal. The bear was aged 40. Highlights The female sloth bear was one of the star attractions of this park. She was rescued from a Madaari or street performer, when she was 25-year-old, in May ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2022
Category: Environment Current Affairs
Topics: Gulabo: India's oldest sloth bear • IUCN Red List • Sloth bear
IUCN assessment on Red Sanders
The International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) recently categorised the Red Sanders (or Red Sandalwood) again into the ‘endangered’ category in its Red List. Red Sanders The species, called Red Sanders, is scientifically called as Pterocarpus santalinus. It is an Indian endemic tree species and its geographical range is restricted to Eastern Ghats. The species ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2022
Category: Environment Current Affairs
Topics: Appendix II of CITES • IUCN assessment on Red Sanders • IUCN Red List • Red Sanders