{"id":131428,"date":"2022-02-07T10:58:07","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T10:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=131428"},"modified":"2022-02-07T10:58:52","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T10:58:52","slug":"aravalli-biodiversity-park-indias-first-oecm-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/aravalli-biodiversity-park-indias-first-oecm-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Aravalli Biodiversity Park-India\u2019s first OECM site"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>QUESTION-Which place among the following has recently been designated as INDIA`S FIRST OECM SITE on world wetlands day 2022 ?<br><\/strong>(a)KAZIRANGA NATIONAL PARK<br>(b)ARAVALLI BIODIVERSITY PARK ,GURGAON<br>(c)NILIGIRI BIOSPHERE RESERVE<br>(d)MANAS NATIONAL PARK<br><strong>ANS-b<br>Related facts-<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>On World Wetlands Day, that is, on February 2, the Aravalli Biodiversity Park was announced as the first( Other Effective Area \u2013 based Conservation Measures site,) OECM site.<\/li><li>The OECM tag is provided by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, IUCN.<\/li><li>According to IUCN, the OECM sites are not protected but are rich in biodiversity.<\/li><li>The tag designates the area as a biodiversity hotspot on the international map.<\/li><li>OECM is a status for a place that has achieved effective in-situ conservation of biodiversity outside protected areas like forests.<\/li><li>The OECM areas were defined at the Convention on Biological Diversity that was held in 2018.<\/li><li>The definition of OECM site mainly covers three main areas. They are ancillary conservation, secondary conservation and primary conservation.<\/li><li>The proposal to make Aravallis as the OECM was made by the National Biodiversity Authority.<\/li><li>The park is spread over 390 acres. It has a semi \u2013 arid vegetation. It has more than 43,000 shrubs, 101,000 trees and 300 endemic plant species.<\/li><li>Aravallis are considered as the green lungs of Delhi. They support leopards, fox, sambhar and jackals. The Aravallis provide 7.07% of oxygen to Delhi.<\/li><li>The Aravallis act as a barrier between the desert in the west and the fertile land in the east.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By-Akash Singh<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>REFERNCE-<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/gurgaon\/biodiversity-park-hits-a-conservation-milestone\/articleshow\/89308966.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong> <\/strong>https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/gurgaon\/biodiversity-park-hits-a-conservation-milestone\/articleshow\/89308966.cms<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QUESTION-Which place among the following has recently been designated as INDIA`S FIRST OECM SITE on world wetlands day 2022 ?(a)KAZIRANGA NATIONAL PARK(b)ARAVALLI BIODIVERSITY PARK ,GURGAON(c)NILIGIRI BIOSPHERE RESERVE(d)MANAS NATIONAL PARKANS-bRelated facts- On World Wetlands Day, that is, on February 2, the Aravalli Biodiversity Park was announced as the first( Other Effective Area \u2013 based Conservation Measures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":131429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1137],"tags":[2541],"class_list":["post-131428","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\/131428","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=131428"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131432,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131428\/revisions\/131432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131428"}],"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=131428"},{"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=131428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}