{"id":14593,"date":"2023-02-11T10:40:07","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T05:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/?p=14593"},"modified":"2023-06-26T06:28:09","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T00:58:09","slug":"sundarban-bird-festival","status":"publish","type":"current-affairs","link":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/current-affairs\/sundarban-bird-festival","title":{"rendered":"Sundarban Bird Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Context:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first-ever Sundarban bird\u00a0 festival was organized by the <\/span><b>Sundarban Tiger Reserve (STR)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> division of the West Bengal Forest Department.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>About Sundarban Bird Festival:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Aim:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> To create a platform for <\/span><b>knowledge-sharing <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and discussion on the future of conservation of the Sundarban birds.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Significance: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The main reason for organizing such a festival is <\/span><b>to record occurrence, distribution, and habitat preferences <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of some birds needing special attention which use Central Asian as their migration route in Asia while passing over the Sundarbans.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A publication by <\/span><b>Zoological Survey of India, (ZSI) <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in 2021, had recorded <\/span><b>428 bird species<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the <\/span><b>Sundarbans<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which is one third of all the avian species found in the country.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><i>News Source: <\/i><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/energy-and-environment\/145-bird-species-spotted-during-the-first-bird-festival-in-sundarbans\/article66494231.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b><i>The Hindu\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Context:\u00a0 The first-ever Sundarban bird\u00a0 festival was organized by the Sundarban Tiger Reserve (STR) division of the West Bengal Forest Department. About Sundarban Bird Festival: Aim: To create a platform for knowledge-sharing and discussion on the future of conservation of the Sundarban birds.\u00a0 Significance: The main reason for organizing such a festival is to record&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/current-affairs\/sundarban-bird-festival\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sundarban Bird Festival<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[593,591,592],"paper-wise":[],"subject":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/current-affairs\/14593"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/current-affairs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/current-affairs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/current-affairs\/14593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14593"},{"taxonomy":"paper-wise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper-wise?post=14593"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=14593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}