PRELIMS BOOSTER 2018
Gee’s golden langur and International Seabed Authority (ISA)
Gee’s golden langur
- Endangered — IUCN
- Schedule I species in the Wildlife Protection Act (1972)
- CITES Appendix I
- Habitat
- found in moist evergreen, dipterocarp, riverine, and moist deciduous forest
- Range of distribution are very small. These are confined to western Assam and in the neighboring foothills of the Black Mountains of Bhutan
- Threats
- habitat destruction owing to grazing, wood logging, timber collection
- Hunting
- Stone quarrying and its associated noise pollution
- artillery firing practices in the Bamuni hills
International Seabed Authority (ISA)
- Established in 1994 by UNCLOS (UN convention on law of sea)
- headquarter — Kingston, Jamaica
- autonomous intergovernmental body
- Observation status at UN
- task — organize, regulate and control all mineral-related activities in the international seabed area beyond the limits of national jurisdiction
- members — 167 members and the European Union
- structure
- Assembly – Consists of all the members
- Council – consists of 36 members elected by assembly
- It is the executive organ
- Establishes specific policies in conformity with the Convention and the general policies set by the Assembly
- It supervises and coordinates implementation of the elaborate regime established by the Convention
- secretariat
