{"id":56462,"date":"2018-09-08T08:10:08","date_gmt":"2018-09-08T08:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=56462"},"modified":"2018-09-08T08:10:08","modified_gmt":"2018-09-08T08:10:08","slug":"world-elephant-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/world-elephant-day\/","title":{"rendered":"World Elephant Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: World Elephant Day is celebrated on-<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>(a) 12 August<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>(b) 14 August<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>(c) 10 August<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>(d) 18 August<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Answer: (a)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Related Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>World Elephant Day is celebrated on annually on <strong>12 August<\/strong> for the conservation and protection of elephants.<\/li>\n<li>This day inculcates public awareness and educational outreach about the plight of Asian and African Elephant.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Background:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>World Elephant Day was co-founded on 12 August 2012, President of World Elephant Society and the Elephant Reintroduction Foundation of Thailand.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Indian Context:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>In India from 12 August, 4 day event <strong>\u201cGaj Mahotsav\u201d<\/strong> was celebrated by Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and Wildlife Trust of India, at Indira Gandhi Centre for Natural Arts (IGNCA), New Delhi.<\/li>\n<li>In order to commemorate World Elephant day, an award ceremony was also conducted. <strong> Maniknandan<\/strong> was given <strong>\u201cBest Elephant Warrior\u201d.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The award for making a significant contribution to the cause of conservation of Asian elephant was given to Mr. John Burton &amp; Ms. Vivien Burton.<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cMere Desh ki Zameen-Wild Anthem\u201d<\/strong> was also released composed by eminent lyricist Prasoon Joshi and sung\u00a0 by prominent singers Shreya Ghosal,Sunidhi Chauhan,Vishal Dadlani and Beni Dayal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>References-<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/worldelephantday.org\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/worldelephantday.org\/about<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=181848\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=181848<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: World Elephant Day is celebrated on- (a) 12 August (b) 14 August (c) 10 August (d) 18 August Answer: (a) Related Facts: World Elephant Day is celebrated on annually on 12 August for the conservation and protection of elephants. This day inculcates public awareness and educational outreach about the plight of Asian and African [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ydw-snews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56462","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56462"}],"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=56462"},{"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=56462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}