{"id":2529,"date":"2020-02-12T12:36:12","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T07:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.classiciasacademy.com\/blog\/?p=2529"},"modified":"2024-06-06T16:30:47","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T11:00:47","slug":"india-for-providing-highest-conservation-of-asian-elephant-and-indian-bustard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.classiciasacademy.com\/blog\/india-for-providing-highest-conservation-of-asian-elephant-and-indian-bustard\/","title":{"rendered":"India for Providing Highest Conservation of Asian Elephant and Indian Bustard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">In News <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>India is considering to include Asian Elephant\nand the Great Indian Bustard to the global conservation list during the <strong>13th\nCoP of the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals\n(CMS).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">In-Detail <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>To be held in Gandhinagar,\nGujarat, the 13 CoP of CMS will see India suggesting providing the highest\nconservational status to Asian Elephants and the Great Indian Bustard. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CMS is an environment treaty\nunder the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Conference is set to begin\nin Gujarat from February 17 and will end on 22.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>130 member countries will\nattend the conference. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>India is a party to the treaty\nsince 1983. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Already the technical experts\nof the CMS have approved the inclusion of Asian Elephant and the Bustard to the\nconservation list and also many party countries are of the same opinion.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>As such, India is expecting\nthat the two species will get the approval of the parties to accord\nconservation status. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Appendix-1<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>By including the elephant and\nthe bustard into the global conservation list, formally known as Appendix-1,\nwill allow India to coax neighbouring countries where these animals migrate to\ndirect more resources to protect them. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>For example, Great Indian\nBustards are known to migrate to Pakistan-side of That desert. There, the bird\nis hunted for game. With the inclusion of the bustard in the list, India can\ncall on Pakistan to protect the bird from hunting. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Currently, there are 173\nspecies in Appendix-1. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Great Indian Bustard<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>The Great Indian Bustard is a <strong>critically\nendangered species<\/strong> with its habitat being in the Indian subcontinent. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>These large birds are one of\nthe <strong>heaviest flying birds in the world<\/strong>. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Their habitat is found across\nthe dry plains of<strong> India and Pakistan<\/strong>. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The birds are commonly found in\n<strong>grasslands and scrub<\/strong>. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In 2018, only 150 individuals\nwere found in the wild.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>While the bird is protected\nunder the Wildlife Protection Act of 1972 in India, in Pakistan, there is very\nlittle protection to the bird.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hunting is rampant in Pakistan.\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The historical range of Great\nIndian Bustard in India includes Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh,\nChattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Haryana, Maharashtra, Tamil\nNadu and Karnataka. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Today, the bird is only in\nisolated pockets of Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka,\nand Madhya Pradesh. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Asian Elephant <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>As per the Project Elephant\nCensus in 2017, conducted by the Union Environment Ministry, there are 29,964\nelephants in the country.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Under the Wildlife Protection\nAct, the elephant gets the highest protection. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>But, elephants in the country\ntend to move across the border, especially at the borders of Nepal, Myanmar,\nand Bhutan. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>By including the pachyderm into\nthe global conservation list, they will get protection from these countries. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">CMS <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>The Convention on Migratory\nSpecies (CMS) or Bonn convention was signed in 1979 and came into force in\n1983. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It aims to conserve migratory\nspecies within their migratory ranges.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It is the only global and\nUN-based organisation that deals with the conservation and management of\nterrestrial, aquatic, and avian migratory species. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Convention gives policy\ndirections, guidelines, action plans, etc., on conservation of migratory\nspecies. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>In News India is considering to include Asian Elephant and the Great Indian Bustard to the global conservation list during the 13th CoP of the <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.classiciasacademy.com\/blog\/india-for-providing-highest-conservation-of-asian-elephant-and-indian-bustard\/\" title=\"India for Providing Highest Conservation of Asian Elephant and Indian Bustard\">    [read more]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.9 - 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