{"id":11153,"date":"2012-07-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/07\/06\/india-s-western-ghats-given-unesco-world-heritage-status-httpwwwbbccouknewsworld-asia-india-18669534\/"},"modified":"2012-07-06T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T12:00:00","slug":"india-s-western-ghats-given-unesco-world-heritage-status-httpwwwbbccouknewsworld-asia-india-18669534","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/07\/06\/india-s-western-ghats-given-unesco-world-heritage-status-httpwwwbbccouknewsworld-asia-india-18669534\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s Western Ghats Given Unesco World Heritage Status http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-india-18669534"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Faced with enormous population pressure, the lush mountains are at risk of a biodiversity crisis. The forests include non-equatorial tropical evergreen forests and are home to at least 325 globally-threatened flora, fauna, bird, amphibian, reptile and fish species, according to Unesco. The mountains are also recognised as one of the world&#8217;s eight &#8220;hottest hotspots&#8221; of biological diversity, and its forests influence the Indian monsoons. At a meeting in the Russian city of St. Petersburg late on Sunday, Unesco delegates decided to give World Heritage Site status to 39 sites of the Western Ghats, reports say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faced with enormous population pressure, the lush mountains are at risk of a biodiversity crisis. The forests include non-equatorial tropical,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}