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Mrs. Hume’s pheasant (Hume’s pheasant or bar-tailed pheasant) and Small Island Developing States (SIDS)
Mrs. Hume’s pheasant (Hume’s pheasant or bar-tailed pheasant)
- Near Threatened – IUCN
- State bird of Mizoram and Manipur
- Local Lame – Nongin
- Habitat
- inhabits open, dry, subtropical evergreen (mainly oak), coniferous (chiefly pine) or mixed conifer-broadleaf forests on steep, often rocky hillsides interrupted by scrub and grassy clearings.
- It appears to favour broken or successional habitats, with adjacent patches of dense forest,
- endemic to China, Myanmar, Thailand, Burma and India
- India — Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh
- Threats
- habitat loss and fragmentation due to shifting cultivation and uncontrolled annual burning, development projects
- reforestation of large areas with dense conifer plantations
- hunted for food
- trade
- Conservation
- Schedule – I bird of wildlife (Protection) act, 1972
- Appendix I of CITES.
Small Island Developing States (SIDS)
- maritime countries that tend to share similar sustainable development challenges like
- small but growing populations
- limited resources
- remoteness
- susceptibility to natural disasters
- vulnerability to external shocks
- excessive dependence on international trade
- fragile environments etc
- first recognization as a distinct group of developing countries — United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in June 1992.
- Barbados Programme of Action — 1994 — assist the SIDS in their sustainable development efforts
- United Nations Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and small island developing states (UN-OHRLLS) represents this group of states
- These are broken down into three geographic regions
- the Caribbean
- the Pacific
- Africa, Indian Ocean, Mediterranean and South China Sea (AIMS)
