Red-List Assessment Of Grasshopper Species In Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve

• 19 Dec 2020

• A specialist group of International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) would conduct a first of its kind Red-List assessment of grasshopper species in Nilgiri biosphere reserve in South India followed by other parts of the country.
• The assessment, to be done by IUCN’s Species Survival Commission (SSC), Grasshoppers Specialist Group, would study the ecosystem by taking grasshoppers as its indicators, and also steps for their conservation.
• The project is funded by United Arab Emirates-based Mohammad Bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund, which works for the conservation of different species across the world.
• This assessment will include 30 endemic species of the NBR along with the new species of grasshopper ‘Tettilobus trishula’ or ‘Shiva’s pygmy trishula’ discovered in the Eravikulam National Park, Kerala.