{"id":34496,"date":"2020-12-07T04:43:14","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T04:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=34496"},"modified":"2022-08-14T00:34:53","modified_gmt":"2022-08-13T19:04:53","slug":"professor-rescues-vulnerable-turtle-from-assam-fish-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/professor-rescues-vulnerable-turtle-from-assam-fish-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor rescues vulnerable turtle from Assam fish market"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A turtle of a vulnerable species was rescued from a fish market in Assam\u2019s Silchar, courtesy quick thinking and action on the part of a university professor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Key-Points<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Indian peacock softshell turtle (<em>Nilssonia hurum<\/em>) is a species of turtle found in South Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is listed on the IUCN Red list as vulnerable species.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is a schedule I species in the Indian Wildlife Protection Act, 1972, and is accorded the highest protection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a report by Guwahati-based conservation NGO, Help Earth, 29 species of turtles have been recorded in India, out of which 20 are found in Assam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A turtle of a vulnerable species was rescued from a fish market in Assam\u2019s Silchar, courtesy quick thinking and action on the part of a university professor. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The Indian peacock softshell turtle (Nilssonia hurum) is a species of turtle found in South Asia. It is listed on the IUCN [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":34497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1364],"tags":[2996,1189],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-34496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-december-2020","tag-assam-current-affairs-2","tag-environment-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34496","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\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34498,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34496\/revisions\/34498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34496"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=34496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}