{"id":81419,"date":"2019-10-13T01:03:44","date_gmt":"2019-10-12T19:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=81419"},"modified":"2019-10-13T01:41:27","modified_gmt":"2019-10-12T20:11:27","slug":"pasighat-butterfly-and-diversity-meet-concludes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/10\/13\/pasighat-butterfly-and-diversity-meet-concludes\/","title":{"rendered":"Pasighat Butterfly and Diversity Meet concludes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Over hundred butterfly species spotted<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>PASIGHAT, Oct 12:<\/strong> In all, 133 varieties of butterflies were spotted including the Rare Saffron (Motam-assyla), Yellow Veined Lancer (Pyroneura-margherita), Scarce Red Forester (Letha distans Butler), Indian Awlking, White Dragontail and Jungle Glory, by enthusiasts at the third edition of the recently-concluded &#8216;Pasighat Butterfly and Diversity Meet.&#8217;<br \/>\nIn order to promote inclusivity, this year&#8217;s edition of the festival was held at Ledum in East Siang district from October 8 to 10 last. It&#8217;s conclusion coincided with the start of the first Easterly Essence Ledum Festival.<br \/>\nAlso, plans have been made to compile photographs of the butterflies spotted during the meet to be released as a coffee table book.<br \/>\nApart from butterfly observation, a fish survey was also conducted by Ph. D scholars of the Rajiv Gandhi University as a part of the biodiversity conservation efforts.<br \/>\nOfficially the &#8216;cleanest village&#8217; in East Siang district, the villagers had also banned hunting in jurisdiction of Ledum to protect the wildlife.<br \/>\nThe event was organised by Destination Ledum in collaboration with the State Foundation for Biodiversity Conservation, Society for Education &amp; Environment Development, East Siang Homestay Operators, Ane Siang Tours &amp; Expeditions and the Ledum village Council, department of environment &amp; forest and department of tourism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over hundred butterfly species spotted PASIGHAT, Oct 12: In all, 133 varieties of butterflies were spotted including the Rare Saffron (Motam-assyla), Yellow Veined Lancer (Pyroneura-margherita), Scarce Red Forester (Letha distans Butler), Indian Awlking, White Dragontail and Jungle Glory, by enthusiasts at the third edition of the recently-concluded &#8216;Pasighat Butterfly and Diversity Meet.&#8217; In order to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-81419","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81419","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=81419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}