{"id":235050,"date":"2021-08-23T11:23:30","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T11:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2021\/08\/23\/abandoned-leopard-cubs-rescued-in-tening\/"},"modified":"2021-08-23T11:23:30","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T11:23:30","slug":"abandoned-leopard-cubs-rescued-in-tening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2021\/08\/23\/abandoned-leopard-cubs-rescued-in-tening\/","title":{"rendered":"Abandoned leopard cubs rescued in Tening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/http:\/\/new.nagalandpost.com\/cms\/gall_content\/no_images_650x.jpg><\/p>\n<p>District Administration led by EAC Tening, Tumben P Tsanglao and forest range officer Tening, Namsibo rescued and transferred two leopard cubs from Tening village to Nagaland Zoological Park (NZP), Dimapur on August 21.<\/p>\n<p>According to a DIPR report, the two leopard cubs were found on August 20 by a group of boys aged around 11-12 years from Tening village. The abandoned cubs were found in a hollowed tree by a stream adjacent to paddy fields of Tening village, the DIPR report informed.<\/p>\n<p>After the cubs were reportedly brought to the village by the four boys, a government high school teacher from Tening village, Chamdinbo, informed the EAC for necessary assistance in handing over the cubs to responsible authority.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by EAC Tening, the NZP officials and district forest officer (DFO) Peren initiated necessary protocols for immediate transfer of the cubs from Tening village to NZP for protection.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The incident serves as a stark reminder of growing man-animal conflict, amid the loss of habitat for big cats, the report stated.<\/p>\n<p>It may be mentioned that the Indian leopard has been listed as &ldquo;vulnerable&rdquo; on International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) &ldquo;Red List&rdquo; due to habitat loss and fragmentation, poaching for illegal trade of skins and body parts.<\/p>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abandoned leopard cubs rescued in Tening<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[679],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-nagaland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}