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Red List of Indian Grasshoppers
December 21 , 2020
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- The Grasshopper Specialist Group of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is initiating the Red List Assessment of grasshoppers in India for the first time.
- So far, none of the Indian grasshopper species has been listed in the Red Data Book.
- The assessment would be initiated in the Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve (NBR) on the border between Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka.
- This assessment will include 30 endemic species of the NBR along with the new species of grasshopper ‘Tettilobus trishula’ or ‘Shiva’s pygmy trishula’
- Shiva’s pygmy trishula was discovered in the Eravikulam National Park, Kerala in 2018.
- Red List of Threatened Species, founded in 1964, is the world’s most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of biological species.
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