NAVI MUMBAI: Every morning, residents of Vashi are being greeted by the delighful sight of flamingoes swooping over the creek, skimming through the water and breaking into a flight.

While the residents are overjoyed that the pink-feathered visitors have chosen the Vashi creek for their stop-over in the city, bird watchers are not so happy with the situation.

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As Haryana Forest Department Tries To Get Rid Of Predatory Fish, Sultanpur National Park Is Fighting For Survival

Walk down a Sultanpur National Park trail and the dead fish you see are a terrifying sight. Tread farther and you can

Four Bar Headed geese nesting in a remote area in China have no idea that they are being tracked by scientists at the Aligarh Muslim University. Their movements from the time they arrived in India have been on surveillance thanks to the satellite collars that have been fitted to them in March.

Crippled by problems of encroaching and poachers, the Sonai-Rupai animal sanctuary in the remote Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border has carved out a success story for itself with sound wildlife management.

BERHAMPUR: Many migratory birds flocking Chilika Lake, the biggest waterfowl habitat in the country, are staying back in the lake instead of returning to their original nests in summer, according to a study.

Conservation strategies for migratory animals are typically based on ad-hoc or simple ranking methods and focus on a single period of the annual cycle. We use a density-dependent population model to examine one-time land purchase strategies for a migratory population with a breeding and wintering grounds.

Simit Bhagat I TNN

The number of threatened Indian bird species has gone up from 149 in 2009 to 154 this year, a global assessment has revealed.
The study done by Birdlife International, a global alliance of conservation organisations, and Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) has attributed the rapid decline in the bird population to habitat destruction.

Kolleru, the largest freshwater lake along the east coast of India in Andhra Pradesh (AP) had been encroached, mainly for aquaculture, to such an extent that most of the lake area was highly compartmentalized by 3

Tourism Dept Wants To Draw Tourists

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