{"id":173277,"date":"2025-06-13T15:42:05","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T10:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=173277"},"modified":"2025-06-13T15:42:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T10:12:06","slug":"endangered-species-fund-in-tamil-nadu-gets-fresh-lease-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/endangered-species-fund-in-tamil-nadu-gets-fresh-lease-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Endangered Species Fund in Tamil Nadu Gets Fresh Lease of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Tamil Nadu Endangered Species Conservation Fund, launched in 2024 with a \u20b950 crore corpus, faced administrative hurdles due to the defunct status of the State Forest Development Agency (SFDA).<br>To avoid delays, the fund has now been transferred to the Advanced Institute of Wildlife Conservation (AIWC), Vandalur, known for its research and wildlife initiatives.<br>The fund aims to protect species like the Malabar Civet and Salim Ali\u2019s Fruit Bat through mapping, research grants, and partnerships.<br>This move revitalizes Tamil Nadu\u2019s commitment to biodiversity conservation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Background and Objective<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Announced in 2024, the Tamil Nadu Endangered Species Conservation Fund has a corpus of \u20b950 crore.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Initial management was assigned to the State Forest Development Agency (SFDA).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fund was to be temporarily held by the Tamil Nadu Power Finance Corporation or Tamil Nadu Transport Development Finance Corporation.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The objective is to survey, assess, and map endangered species and build conservation partnerships.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tamil Nadu Endangered Species Conservation Fund, launched in 2024 with a \u20b950 crore corpus, faced administrative hurdles due to the defunct status of the State Forest Development Agency (SFDA).To avoid delays, the fund has now been transferred to the Advanced Institute of Wildlife Conservation (AIWC), Vandalur, known for its research and wildlife initiatives.The fund [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":173278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5372],"tags":[4917,90],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-173277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-may-2025","tag-state-current-affairs","tag-tamil-nadu-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173279,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173277\/revisions\/173279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173277"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=173277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}