{"id":23955,"date":"2018-03-30T00:08:19","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T18:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=23955"},"modified":"2018-03-30T00:08:19","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T18:38:19","slug":"namdapha-national-park-to-host-butterfly-meet-in-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2018\/03\/30\/namdapha-national-park-to-host-butterfly-meet-in-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Namdapha National Park to host butterfly meet in April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>[Indrajit Tingwa]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MIAO, Mar 29:<\/strong> Namdapha National Park (NNP) is all poised to host the Namdapha Butterfly Meet this April.<br \/>\nThe meet, scheduled to be held from 27-30 April, is being organised by the park authorities in collaboration with the Society for Education and Environmental Development (SEED) and the Miao Explorers, and partnered with Dapha Valley Tours and Travels.<br \/>\nThis is the first time that the park authorities have taken the initiative to organise a butterfly meet with the tagline, &#8216;You can&#8217;t catch them, but you can capture them&#8217;.<br \/>\nThe organisers expect participants to capture some rare species of butterflies with their cameras at the world-acclaimed biodiversity hotspot with the distinction of being home to all the four big cats together.<br \/>\nRegistration fee for the meet has been fixed at Rs 1000 per head. Several activities have been lined up for the meet, including nature walks, interactive sessions, and such.<br \/>\nMinom Pertin of the SEED exuded excitement at the response the organisers have received so far.<br \/>\nPeter Smetacek, founder of the Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal, Uttarakhand, will be the resource person of the meet.<br \/>\nNamdapha National Park is endowed with abundant flora and fauna, and the meet is expected to be a step towards exploring and showcasing a small aspect of the park&#8217;s endowments to the outside world, besides offering an opportunity for butterfly enthusiasts to indulge in their passion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Indrajit Tingwa] MIAO, Mar 29: Namdapha National Park (NNP) is all poised to host the Namdapha Butterfly Meet this April. The meet, scheduled to be held from 27-30 April, is being organised by the park authorities in collaboration with the Society for Education and Environmental Development (SEED) and the Miao Explorers, and partnered with Dapha [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23955","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}