IUCN Status: Birds | Environment for UPSC 2025 (Pre & Mains) PDF Download

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IUCN STATUS OF BIRDS 
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IUCN STATUS OF BIRDS 
 
JERDON’S COURSER 
 
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IUCN STATUS OF BIRDS 
 
JERDON’S COURSER 
 
 
JERDON’S COURSER 
 
The Jerdon’s Courser is a nocturnal bird endemic to Andhra Pradesh.  
It is a flagship species for the extremely threatened scrub jungle.  
The species was considered to be extinct until it was rediscovered in 
1986 and the area of rediscovery was subsequently declared as 
the Sri Lankamaleswara Wildlife Sanctuary. 
Sri Lankamalleswara Wildlife Sanctuary is a wildlife sanctuary 
headquartered in Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh, India. 
 It is the only habitat in the world which provides home for 
the Jerdon's courser, a highly endangered bird species. 
 Red Sanders, an endemic species, can be found here. 
Red sanders , red sandalwood, and saunderswood, is a 
species  endemic to the southern Eastern Ghats mountain range 
of South India. (Andhra Pradesh and north of Tamil Nadu)
 
 This tree is valued for the rich red color of its wood. 
 
 
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IUCN STATUS OF BIRDS 
 
JERDON’S COURSER 
 
 
JERDON’S COURSER 
 
The Jerdon’s Courser is a nocturnal bird endemic to Andhra Pradesh.  
It is a flagship species for the extremely threatened scrub jungle.  
The species was considered to be extinct until it was rediscovered in 
1986 and the area of rediscovery was subsequently declared as 
the Sri Lankamaleswara Wildlife Sanctuary. 
Sri Lankamalleswara Wildlife Sanctuary is a wildlife sanctuary 
headquartered in Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh, India. 
 It is the only habitat in the world which provides home for 
the Jerdon's courser, a highly endangered bird species. 
 Red Sanders, an endemic species, can be found here. 
Red sanders , red sandalwood, and saunderswood, is a 
species  endemic to the southern Eastern Ghats mountain range 
of South India. (Andhra Pradesh and north of Tamil Nadu)
 
 This tree is valued for the rich red color of its wood. 
 
 
RED SANDERS 
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IUCN STATUS OF BIRDS 
 
JERDON’S COURSER 
 
 
JERDON’S COURSER 
 
The Jerdon’s Courser is a nocturnal bird endemic to Andhra Pradesh.  
It is a flagship species for the extremely threatened scrub jungle.  
The species was considered to be extinct until it was rediscovered in 
1986 and the area of rediscovery was subsequently declared as 
the Sri Lankamaleswara Wildlife Sanctuary. 
Sri Lankamalleswara Wildlife Sanctuary is a wildlife sanctuary 
headquartered in Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh, India. 
 It is the only habitat in the world which provides home for 
the Jerdon's courser, a highly endangered bird species. 
 Red Sanders, an endemic species, can be found here. 
Red sanders , red sandalwood, and saunderswood, is a 
species  endemic to the southern Eastern Ghats mountain range 
of South India. (Andhra Pradesh and north of Tamil Nadu)
 
 This tree is valued for the rich red color of its wood. 
 
 
RED SANDERS RED SANDERS 
Red sanders (Pterocarpus santalinus), known for its rich hue and 
therapeutic properties, is high in demand across Asia, particularly 
in China and Japan, for use in cosmetics and medicinal products as 
well as for making furniture, woodcraft and musical instruments. 
 Its popularity can be gauged from the fact that a tonne of red 
sanders costs anything between Rs 50 lakh to Rs 1 crore in the 
international market. 
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), an 
international organisation for nature conservation, has now 
reclassified red sanders (Pterocarpus santalinus) as ‘near 
threatened’ from the earlier ‘endangered’. 
All red sanders farmers, who weren’t allowed to export their produce 
as the foreign trade policy prohibited it, now can.  
The Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT), an agency of the 
Ministry of Commerce and Industry, on February 18, 2019 revised 
its export policy to permit its export if it is obtained from 
cultivated land.