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Tagging of horseshoe crabs
August 28 , 2024
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- The Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) and the Odisha Forest Department have joined hands to tag horseshoe crabs along the State’s coast.
- It aims to understand the population and habitat utilisation for its conservation and management.
- Horseshoe crabs are one of oldest living creatures on the Earth, and a valuable species medicinally.
- India is home to two species of horseshoe crabs — Tachypleus gigas and Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda (mangrove).
- Horseshoe crabs are a Schedule 2 species under the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972.
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