{"id":259259,"date":"2025-07-12T15:27:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T15:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/259259\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T15:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T15:27:10","slug":"rare-indian-pangolin-rescued-at-loc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/259259\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare Indian Pangolin rescued at LoC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t<strong>Jammu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t<strong>The Indian Army has rescued a pangolin found at the Line of Control (LoC) post of the Gigrial Battalion in Akhnoor. The army later handed it over to the staff from the Wildlife Department.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#13;<br \/>\n\tThe pangolin, a species protected under Schedule I of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972, is listed as endangered on the IUCN Red List. Schedule I provides the highest level of legal protection, with offences under it attracting stringent penalties.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#13;<br \/>\n\tThe Indian pangolin, also known as the thick-tailed pangolin or scaly anteater, is a nocturnal, solitary, slow-moving mammal that primarily feeds on ants and termites.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t<strong>READ MORE<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.awazthevoice.in\/changemaker-news\/sarfaraz-ahmad-is-reviving-cultural-consciousness-among-maharashtra-muslims-38994.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Sarfaraz Ahmad is reviving cultural consciousness among Maharashtra Muslims<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#13;<br \/>\n\tMeanwhile, in a separate incident, a team from the wildlife control rooms of Rajouri and Nowshera jointly rescued a sub-adult female leopard from Simbal village. The leopard was spotted sitting near a maize field, just a few metres from a residential area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Jammu &#13; The Indian Army has rescued a pangolin found at the Line of Control (LoC) post&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[99470,8736,12016,99469,37628,99467,99468,37642,99466,37574,70,16,15,1717,99471,99472],"class_list":{"0":"post-259259","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-akhnoor","9":"tag-animal-rescue","10":"tag-endangered-species","11":"tag-gigrial-battalion","12":"tag-indian-army","13":"tag-line-of-control","14":"tag-loc","15":"tag-military-operations","16":"tag-pangolin","17":"tag-rescue","18":"tag-science","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom","21":"tag-wildlife","22":"tag-wildlife-department","23":"tag-wildlife-protection"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114840970455519232","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}