State of India’s birds, 2023
A report on India’s bird population has painted a grim picture for many of the country’s species. The State of India’s Birds (SoIB) report showed worrisome declines, with 178 species of wild birds identified
Birds
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Smart dodo
THOUGHT the dodo was a lumbering, fat bird? You might be mistaken, says Andrew Kitchner, curator at the Royal Museum of Scotland, who has discovered that early illustrations of the dodo, which became
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Shifting blame
Avian diversity in the Northeast is better off with shifting cultivation than selective logging and monoculture forests
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best space songs
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Venomous vendetta
IT WAS a strange case of politicians taking out their venom on snakes. Angry CPM workers in Kerala vandalised and set fire to the Parassinikkadavu Snake Park in Kannur. The reason for the wanton
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Protest against plant near Tanzania's Lake Natron
Plans to establish a soda-ash plant on the shores of Lake Natron in northern Tanzania is facing strong opposition. Conservationists fear harm to the rare flamingo. The plant is to be set up by the
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On its last legs
A rare bird versus a canal
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Proposed Tata plant in Tanzania threat to flamingo habitat
Tata Chemicals is getting considerable stick from conservation groups and environmentalists in Africa over its plan to set up a soda ash facility jointly with the Tanzanian government. It is being
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Protest against eco sensitive tag for Maharashtra bird sanctuary
Over 50,000 people are agitating against a proposed declaration of the Jaikwadi Bird Sanctuary as an
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Feeling the heat
with the mercury already soaring high, there are unusual customers for desert cooler. To kill the heat, desert coolers fans and exhaust fans will be installed in cages housing monkeys and exotic
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Human avian conflict
in the first week of October, the Thol reservoir in the Mehsana district of Gujarat witnessed another episode of human-avian conflict. Thousands of villagers marched to the reservoir and