{"id":131248,"date":"2022-02-01T13:57:52","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T13:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=131248"},"modified":"2022-02-01T13:57:57","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T13:57:57","slug":"red-sanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/red-sanders\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sanders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: Red Sanders is the name used for which of the following?<\/strong><br>a) Red Sand<br>b) IPL Cricket Team<br>c) Red Sandalwood<br>d) None of these<br><strong>Answer: (c)<br>Related Facts:-<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has recently reclassified the Red Sanders or Red Sandalwood as &#8216;endangered&#8217; on its Red List.<\/li><li>Scientific name of the Red Sanders species is Pterocarpus santalinus.<\/li><li>It is an endemic tree species to India and geographically limited to the Eastern Ghats.<\/li><li>The species is only found in a small area of woodland in Andhra Pradesh.<\/li><li>In 2018, it was designated as a &#8216;near threatened&#8217; species.<\/li><li>When a species was removed from the endangered list for the first time since 1997, it was a cause for celebration.<\/li><li>The numbers of the Red Sanders species has seen a remarkable drop by 50-80% for the past three generations.<\/li><li>As a result, it was once again placed in the Endangered category by the IUCN.<\/li><li>Red Sanders are prized for their deep color and medicinal benefits.<\/li><li>They are in considerable demand in Asia, particularly in China and Japan, for usage in cosmetics and pharmaceuticals.<\/li><li>Furniture, woodcraft, and musical instruments are all made using it.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By &#8211; Rajesh Tripathi<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:-<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/news\/wildlife-biodiversity\/red-sanders-falls-back-in-iucn-s-endangered-category-81053\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/news\/wildlife-biodiversity\/red-sanders-falls-back-in-iucn-s-endangered-category-81053<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Red Sanders is the name used for which of the following?a) Red Sandb) IPL Cricket Teamc) Red Sandalwoodd) None of theseAnswer: (c)Related Facts:- International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has recently reclassified the Red Sanders or Red Sandalwood as &#8216;endangered&#8217; on its Red List. Scientific name of the Red Sanders species is Pterocarpus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":131249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1137],"tags":[2541],"class_list":["post-131248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mis","tag-miscellaneous-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131250,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131248\/revisions\/131250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}