{"id":8116,"date":"2009-08-11T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/08\/11\/eastern-himalayas-has-an-abundance-of-new-species-already-endangered\/"},"modified":"2009-08-11T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T12:00:00","slug":"eastern-himalayas-has-an-abundance-of-new-species-already-endangered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/08\/11\/eastern-himalayas-has-an-abundance-of-new-species-already-endangered\/","title":{"rendered":"Eastern Himalayas Has An Abundance of New Species, Already Endangered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/TECH\/science\/08\/11\/eco.himalayas.newspecies\/index.html\">www.cnn.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>INDIA, August 12, 2009: Over 350 new species including the world&#8217;s smallest deer, a &#8220;flying frog&#8221; and a 100 million-year old gecko have been discovered in the Eastern Himalayas, a biological treasure trove now threatened by climate change. (See a slideshow at &#8220;Source&#8221; above).<\/p>\n<p>A decade of research carried out by scientists for the WWF in remote mountain areas brought discoveries such as a bright green frog that uses its red and long webbed feet to glide in the air.<\/p>\n<p>The WWF report, &#8220;The Eastern Himalayas &#8212; Where Worlds Collide,&#8221; details discoveries made by scientists from various organizations between 1998 and 2008 in a region reaching across Bhutan and northeast India to the far north of Myanmar as well as Nepal and southern parts of Tibet in China. &#8220;This rugged and remarkable landscape is already seeing direct, measurable impacts from climate change and risks being lost forever,&#8221; the report says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.cnn.com INDIA, August 12, 2009: Over 350 new species including the world&#8217;s smallest deer, a &#8220;flying frog&#8221; and a,&#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-8116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8116","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=8116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}