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🔆Voice Chat Discussion Agendas for 9th April.

✅Economy PT 365 Discussion
Time: 6 PM
Topic: P.g No. 65 to P.g. No. 79 (AGRICULTURE )

✅Prelims 2018 Paper Analysis
Time: 9:00PM

Place:- @studyUpscChannel

Committee on Private Members’ Bills and Resolutions (Lok Sabha):

Context=An MP introduced a 'Private Member’s Bill' for legalising same-sex marriage.

1.It is nominated by Speaker
2.It consists of 15 members and the Deputy Speaker is its Chairman.
3.It performs the same function in relation to Private Members’ Bills and Resolutions as the Business Advisory Committee does in regard to Government Business.
4.Exclusive to Lok Sabha.

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Hoolock Gibbon - ONLY Ape in India

Region -
1.Assam (South of Brahmaputra and the North Bank areas and east of the Dibang Rivers).
2.Its range extends into seven states covering Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, and Tripura

Habitat - need continuous canopy, broadleaved, wet, evergreen /semi evergreen forest

Conservation Status-
IUCN - Endangered,
WPA,1972 - Schedule 1

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Pygmy hog (Endangered)
- Only in Assam -> Manas national park, Orang NP

-Gestation period -> 110-120 days

-Habitat -> Tall, wet grasslands

-Threat -> conversion of wet grasslands into agri fields

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Unique feature - False (extra) thumb
Mostlly eat bamboo ( rarely eat meat)
Spends half of the day sleeping😴

-They were discovered before giant panda(Despite its name, it is not closely related to the giant panda)

-The red panda is a small arboreal mammal (spends most of the time on tree) found in the forests of India, Nepal, Bhutan and the northern mountains of Myanmar and southern China.

-It thrives best at 2,200-4,800m, in mixed deciduous and conifer forests with dense understories of bamboo.

-In India, it is found in Sikkim, western Arunachal Pradesh, Darjeeling district of West Bengal and parts of Meghalaya.

-It is also the state animal of Sikkim.

-Listed as Endangered in the IUCN red list of Threatened Species and under Schedule I of the Indian Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972

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Olive Ridley Turtle (VU)
(smallest sea turtle)

Geographical range - warm, tropical, subtropical waters of Indian, pacific and Atlantic ocean

In India, mass nesting happens ONLY along the Odisha coast - Gahirmatha, Mouth of the devi River and Rushikulya

ONLY olive Ridley Turtle are known for their synchronized mass nesting called Arribada

Females may lay eggs upto 3 times in a nesting season

Imp- Sex of the hatchling determined by the temperature 😮😮🙄
Warmer temperature = produce more females

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Leatherback sea turtle (VU)
(largest sea turtle)

Geo range - All tropical and subtropical oceans. In India, Andaman and Nicobar Island.

Galathea national park on great Nicobar Island is the largest nesting site in southeast Asia

They are one of the deepest divers

Imp- Sex of the hatchling determined by the temperature
Warmer temperature = produce more females and cooler favors male.

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Dhole 🐕

also known as Asian wild dog, Indian wild dog, whistling dog, red dog, and mountain wolf.

It play an important role as apex predators in forest ecosystems.

Karnataka, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh rank high in the conservation of the dhole in India. India has the highest number of dholes in the world, but India don’t have targeted management plans for scientific monitoring of the species

Conservation Status: Besides the tiger, the dhole is the only large carnivore in India that is under the IUCN’s ‘endangered’ category.
The species is protected under Schedule 2 of the Wildlife Protection Act 1972 and under Appendix 2 of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).

In India, the first conservation breeding centre for dhole was built at the Indira Gandhi Zoological Park (IGZP) in 2014.

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