{"id":13,"date":"2010-12-28T18:00:48","date_gmt":"2010-12-28T15:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/?p=13"},"modified":"2010-12-28T18:00:48","modified_gmt":"2010-12-28T15:00:48","slug":"leonardo-dicaprio-to-help-save-tigers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/28\/leonardo-dicaprio-to-help-save-tigers\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonardo DiCaprio to help save tigers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio will put his fame to work to raise  global awareness about India\u2019s dwindling number of tigers, an official  says.<\/p>\n<p>DiCaprio and India\u2019s Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh met at a  reception Friday in New York organised by the Coalition of Rainforest  Nations, an inter-governmental organisation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe actor met the minister and has expressed his interest to play a  crucial role in sensitising the global community to the cause of the  Indian tiger,\u201d a senior environment ministry said in New Delhi on  Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDiCaprio plans to come to India to be a part of the conservation efforts,\u201d the official said.<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s endangered tiger population has plummeted to 1350 \u2014 just over a third of the 3700 estimated to be alive in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan joined a campaign to protect the tiger.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, alarmed by the dwindling number of  tigers, set up two years ago a national wildlife crime prevention  bureau, drawing experts from the police, environmental agencies and  customs to end poaching.<\/p>\n<p>The government has enlisted former soldiers to be part of a \u201ctiger protection force\u201d in state-run sanctuaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio will put his fame to work to raise global awareness about India\u2019s dwindling number of tigers, an official says. DiCaprio and India\u2019s Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh met at a reception Friday in New York organised by the Coalition of Rainforest Nations, an inter-governmental organisation. \u201cThe actor met the minister and has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}