PRELIMS BOOSTER 2018: Jerdon’s Courser and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
Jerdon’s Courser
- Critically endangered –IUCN
- nocturnal bird
- flagship species for the extremely
- threatened scrub jungle
- found only in the Eastern Ghats of the state of Andhra Pradesh in peninsular
- The species was considered to be extinct until it was rediscovered in 1986 and the area of rediscovery was subsequently declared as the Sri Lankamaleswara Wildlife Sanctuary
- Habitat
inhabits sparse, thorny and non-thorny scrub-forest and bushes, interspersed with patches of bare ground, in gently undulating, rocky foothills
- Distribution
- Jerdon’s Courser is endemic to Andhra Pradesh.
- Evidence of presence neighboring areas of the state of Maharashtra and southern Madhya Pradesh
- Threats
- Clearing of scrub jungle — creation of new pastures, growing of dry land crops, plantations of exotic trees, quarrying and the construction of the Telugu-Ganga Canal
- Illegal trapping of birds
- conservation
- The local Yanaadi community have been employed to try to locate it.
- Sri Lankamaleswara Wildlife Sanctuary
- Sri Penusula Narasimha Wildlife Sanctuary
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
- United Nations (UN) program
- member of the United Nations Development Group
- Established — 1946
- Headquarter — New York City
- Aim — provides humanitarian and developmental assistance to children and mothers in developing countries
- History
- 1946 — United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund
- created by the United Nations General Assembly to provide emergency food and healthcare to children in countries that had been devastated by World War II.
- 1953– became a permanent part of the United Nations System
- Funding — contributions from governments and private donors.
- awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1965
- works in 190 countries and territories
- governed by an Executive Board — 36 members that are elected to terms of three years by UNESCO. (regional representation)
- activities
- report — The State of the World’s Children 2017: Children in a Digital World
- Super Dads’ initiative — part of UNICEF’s #EarlyMomentsMatter campaign. It aims to increase understanding of how a child’s environments and experiences in early childhood can shape their future health, well being, ability to learn etc
- UNICEF & India
- working in India since 1949
- largest UN organization in the country
- IAP HealthPhone initiative — tackle the challenge of malnutrition in mothers and children across India
