Order of the Supreme Court in the matter of M K Ranjitsinh & Others Vs Union of India & Others dated 21/03/2024. The matter related to protection of Great Indian Bustard (GIB) and Lesser Florican. The SC order of April 19, 2021 imposed restrictions on the setting up of overhead …
CONSERVATIONISTS in the UK plan to use explosions and gunfire to scare migrant birds away from parts of a wintering site poisoned by an environmental disaster. They will lay down food in less polluted areas of a Spanish nature reserve that is home to thousands of birds flying south from …
But for a timely court order, 500 birds which were illegally captured would have been sold in Delhi on August 7. Following a tip-off, an eight-member team of the forest and wildlife department of the Delhi government raided a house in east Delhi and recovered the birds kept in six …
The Broken Arrows The relationships between plants and pollinators took thousands of years to develop. Human intervention has destroyed them in a very short period. Pollinator decline is also affecting the harvest. Therefore, it is vital to conserve them, but research in this field is lacking in India THERE are …
finally , the mystery of the disappearing Siberian cranes in the Keoladeo Ghana National Park, Bharatpur, Rajasthan, has been partly solved. And for those willing to learn in India's wildlife management community, there are several valuable lessons. The birds have either stayed out or arrived in significantly reduced numbers over …
Following exclusion of grazing animals from the Azraq Wetland Reserve in 1995, the wetland has become totally dominated by common reed ( Phragmites australis ). In an attempt to restore wetland community diversity, particularly that associated with open pools, exposed mud and low marsh, experimental reintroduction of water buffaloes has …
increasing silt load and spreading nets of prawn culturists are slowly throttling Chilka, Asia's biggest salt water lake spread over 1,100-sq-km. It is estimated that rivers and rivulets such as Nuna, Kusumi and Salia carry about 13 million tonnes of silt into the lake alongwith fresh water every year. The …
Hundreds, perhaps, even thousands of migratory birds are dying in the eastern US and Canada due to salmonella bacteria, the US National Wildlife Health Center (nwhc) announced recently. The organisation has found the bacteria in dead birds form over American 10 states since January this year and is in the …
the Great Indian Bustard, which is also the state bird of Rajasthan, is fast becoming extinct due to human encroachment on its habitat. The birds known as Maldhok in Maharashtra and Godawan in Rajasthan, are found in the dry grasslands of the region that are being brought under cultivation to …
Persistent organochlorines such as DDT and its metabolites (DDTs), hexachlorocyclohexane isomers (HCHs), chlordane compounds (CHLs), hexachlorobenzene (HCB), and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were determined in whole-body homogenates of resident and migratory birds collected from South India. Organochlorine contamination pattern in birds varied depending on their migratory behaviour. Resident birds contained relatively …
two reports about the fate of sea birds affected by oil slicks reveal a very sorry picture about their survival after they are released from captivity. In the uk , for example, only one per cent of guillemots (a sea bird) survived the first year of release. In the Netherlands, …
rampant harvesting of nests has caused a decline in the populations of the Edible-nest Swiftlet ( Collocalia fuciphagia ), according to R Sankaran, scientist in the division of ecology at the Salim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History ( sacon ) in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. Sankaran has undertaken a …
Lloyd Davis, zoologist at University of Otago, New Zealand, says that penguins use a practice similar to prostitution in order to obtain stones for their nests. Davis has made nine visits to Antarctica to study penguin behaviour. "They are not nearly as faithful as we thought,' he says. "They swap …
as long as those little, green men do not show up, the third stone from the sun - Earth - remains the only planet that can boast of life. In fact, life is in such abundance here that science can often lose track of all the various lifeforms that we …
environmentalists are targeting duck shooters and anglers in New Zealand. They say that heavy loads of lead are contaminating some New Zealand lake beds and wetlands. The Forest and Bird Protection Society has launched a campaign to end the use of lead in shotgun ammunition. The society has written to …
hollywood has even made a film about it. Fly Away Home tells the story of a father-daughter team and their efforts to lead a flock of young geese to a new home and of their eventual success. Reality, however, is a totally different ball game, far from the big screen's …
Doctors in Hong Kong have recently diagnosed a 19-year-old woman with the bird flu infection. With this, the total number of confirmed human cases have gone up to 16. Five people are still under observation as doctors suspect that they may also be carrying the virus. Hong Kong's attempts to …
migratory birds coming to the Bhatkal Lake area and Sultanpur Bird Sanctuary, are dying due to the growing pollution, scarcity of water in the lakes and inhospitable conditions. Members of the Delhi Wildlife Society (dws) recently found a migratory Bay Owl (Phodilus badius) and two Salty-backed Gull (Larus Schistisagus) dead …
How do squirrels know where they buried their nuts, and bees successfully return to their hives? Alan Kamil and Juli Jones at the University of Nebraska, USA, say that some animals possess internal representations of the geometric relationships between geographical features
bird-trappers have evolved new methods to hunt migratory birds that have started arriving at the Chilika lagoon in the state of Orissa, the largest salt water lagoon in Asia. The latest tactic is the use of oral tranquillisers mixed in foodstuff to eliminate or capture the birds in an unconscious …
researchers say that sand from the beaches of the northeastern us and Canada have been making its way to Bermuda. They believe that this has been due to the curious appetites of migratory birds which carry quartz crystals to the island in their stomachs. Palaeontologist Bruce Rueger of Colby College …
