{"id":34587,"date":"2020-12-08T05:41:32","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T05:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=34587"},"modified":"2020-12-08T05:41:32","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T05:41:32","slug":"significance-of-lions-spotted-in-gujarats-jasdan-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/significance-of-lions-spotted-in-gujarats-jasdan-area\/","title":{"rendered":"Significance of lions spotted in Gujarat\u2019s Jasdan area"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Leaving their known habitat in Dhari in Gir (east) wildlife division in Amreli district, three Asiatic lions\u2014a female and two sub-adult males, have walked around 100 km to reach Jasdan taluka of Rajkot district and have been camping in a grassland and revenue areas of Jasdan.<\/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>This is for the second year in a row that lions have visited Jasdan. A look at the implications of the development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lions keep moving from surrounding areas to Gir National Park and Wildlife Sanctuary (NGPWLS), creating what is called lion corridors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But their Jasdan visit differs for the fact that it is second year in a row, that too around same time of the year. Also, Jasdan is not connected to Amreli by any contiguous riverine patch associated with corridors like Krakach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lions are considered top predators of grassland and shrubland ecosystems. Jasdan, Vinchhiya and Chotila talukas have grasslands, both private as well as in protected forest areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaving their known habitat in Dhari in Gir (east) wildlife division in Amreli district, three Asiatic lions\u2014a female and two sub-adult males, have walked around 100 km to reach Jasdan taluka of Rajkot district and have been camping in a grassland and revenue areas of Jasdan. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points This is for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":34588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1364],"tags":[1189,76],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-34587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-december-2020","tag-environment-current-affairs","tag-gujarat-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34587","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=34587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34589,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34587\/revisions\/34589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34587"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=34587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}