Rare migratory birds
Amur Falcon are being massacred in Nagaland. Large number of these winged
guests migrate through the Doyang reservoir in Wokha district of the State
between October-November, from Siberia en route their final destination of
Somalia, Kenya and South Africa.
During their rest stop
in Nagaland, they are killed by the local hunters for their meat or for their
live sale. The issue was brought up in the recent meeting of National Board For
Wildlife (NBWL) to draw the attention of Environment Minister Jayanthi
Natarajan.
“This visiting
congregation of Amur Falcons that fly through Nagaland is the single largest
recorded anywhere in the world”, said Dr. Asad Rahmani, noted ornithologist and
member of standing committee NBWL and it is sad that they meet with such a
fate. Also, it is because of such brutal seasonal hunting sprees, of the
migratory birds the Siberian Crane is now locally extinct in India. They are
killed on their way to India in other countries, he noted.
Doyang is a rockfill dam
and hydroelectric plant on the Doyang River, a tributary of Brahmaputra, run by
the North Eastern Electric Power Corporation (NEEPCO) is about 30 km from Wokha
town in Nagaland. These visiting birds spend the day on the transmission
wires, branching out of the power project and then descend to forested
patches along the banks of the reservoir for roosting.
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