विदेशी कछुओं से खतरे में भारतीय जैव विविधता, लोगों की अज्ञानता बन रही है संकट

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00:00world turtle day and to talk to us with the assistant professor Dr. Gauru

00:06Ji. We will know what the turtle is in the ecosystem. What is the importance of the turtle?

00:14What is the importance of the turtle? What is the importance of the turtle? What is the

00:26importance of the turtle?

00:30So, the turtle is a unique animal. They belong to the reptiles. There are also four

00:39classes in the reptiles. There are also a testidines. It is a very interesting animal.

00:46It is not a unique animal. It is a unique animal. But people do not know it.

00:56Because first of all, they live in the water. So, there is no interaction with a lot of people.

01:01Secondly, in today's date, there are turtles because there are so many interactions with people.

01:07So, that is why people don't understand their importance. If we look ecologically,

01:13they play a very significant role. They are the best scavengers in our aquatic ecosystem.

01:20They are predators. They are herbivores. So, in this way, our whole ecosystem,

01:26especially the wetland ecosystem, is a very important feature of turtles.

01:30So, in this way, the water is very important. The wetland or the water body,

01:38the river is very healthy. So, turtles are a very important feature of turtles.

01:42I would like to tell you that in Delhi, where we have a river Yamuna,

01:47at any time, in the river Yamuna, there were birds were reported in the river Yamuna.

01:53But crocodiles were reported and many turtle species were reported.

01:55At today's date, we don't see turtles in the river Yamuna because it is so much polluted.

02:01And some of the places where we can see the turtles, which are very important.

02:15So, we look at the turtles, how many people can be found in the river.

02:19And the turtles' mountain, we can see how much the turtles are formed.

02:21It is basically ribs, which are the ribs.

02:51It is a fused version of it to give it protection

02:54because turtle is a soft body animal

02:56and nature has blessed it with a hard shell

03:03so many animals can't hunt it because of that hard shell

03:06so this is one thing

03:10and the other thing, in today's date, there is a lot of threat on our turtles

03:15I have told you that the increasing amount of pollution

03:19then water bodies are bad, sand mining is a lot more because turtles lay eggs on the sand banks

03:27so they need a very clean environment and sandy areas

03:32but you know that because of the sand mining, they have a whole habitat destruction

03:36and there is another big problem with turtles

03:39that they are illegally traded

03:42in many South Asian countries like Thailand, China, Bangkok, Myanmar

03:47in all countries there is a lot of demand

03:50there is a lot of demand from these countries

03:52one is that it is a lot of common in pet trade

03:55and the other is that their meat is a luxury delicacies

04:00so it is considered as one of the costliest luxury meat in the countries like Thailand, Bangkok, Myanmar

04:08there is another concept of Chinese traditional medicines

04:12so it is also used as aphrodisiac medicines

04:16and there is a lot of demand in pet trade

04:18even in India there are few species which are huge in demand in illegal pet trade

04:24like some Indian species

04:26I would like to tell you that we cannot keep the Indian wildlife in our home

04:30because they come in, they are scheduled animals

04:33Scheduled one is mostly turtle species

04:35in total in India there are 30 species of turtles and tortoises

04:39so turtles and tortoises are two different categories

04:41they belong to testudines only

04:43but there are 30 species

04:45and there are 30 species

04:47in which there are some species

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