{"id":51866,"date":"2021-09-09T04:21:52","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T04:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=51866"},"modified":"2021-09-09T04:21:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T04:21:53","slug":"indian-biologist-shailendra-singh-wins-global-award-in-turtle-conservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/indian-biologist-shailendra-singh-wins-global-award-in-turtle-conservation\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian biologist Shailendra Singh wins global award in turtle conservation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Recently,&nbsp;<strong>Indian biologist Shailendra Singh<\/strong>&nbsp;has been awarded the<strong>&nbsp;Behler Turtle Conservation Award<\/strong>&nbsp;for bringing<strong>&nbsp;three critically endangered turtle conservation species<\/strong>&nbsp;back from the brink of extinction. Shailendra Singh was named to lead the&nbsp;Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA)\/ Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) India turtle programme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>There are<strong>&nbsp;29 species of freshwater turtles and tortoises in the country.<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About the award:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The award has been bestowed by several global bodies involved in turtle conservation such as&nbsp;Turtle Survival Alliance, IUCN\/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group, Turtle Conservancy, and Turtle Conservation Fund.&nbsp;<\/li><li>The Behler Turtle Conservation Award was established in&nbsp;2006&nbsp;to recognise outstanding achievements, contributions and leadership excellence in international turtle conservation and biology.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently,&nbsp;Indian biologist Shailendra Singh&nbsp;has been awarded the&nbsp;Behler Turtle Conservation Award&nbsp;for bringing&nbsp;three critically endangered turtle conservation species&nbsp;back from the brink of extinction. Shailendra Singh was named to lead the&nbsp;Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA)\/ Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) India turtle programme. There are&nbsp;29 species of freshwater turtles and tortoises in the country. About the award: The award has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":51867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1417],"tags":[92],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-51866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-september-2021","tag-awards-prizes-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51866","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\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51868,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51866\/revisions\/51868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51866"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=51866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}