By From Our Correspondent On Dec
14, 2017
GUWAHATI: In an innovative
initiative by conservation group, Aaranyak here towards conservation of
globally endangered Greater Adjutant Stork species, an artificial nesting
platform has been provided for the bird at a conservation site near here.
Twenty-seven tear-old
conservation and research group Aaranyak, a member organisation of the IUCN,
which celebrated the breeding season of this endangered bird species through a
happy hatching ceremony with villagers at its conservation site a few days ago,
is happy over the success its first of its kind experiment of using artificial
nesting platform for the bird species.
It has been observed that
lack of proper nesting tree is a major problem for this bird. Greater adjutant
is a globally threatened bird and current global population is about 1200birds.
Assam harbours about 700 to 800 birds of this species and considered as its
global stronghold.
In Assam, this colonial nesting
bird make its nesting colonies in privately owned nesting trees in the middle
of the villages. Many nesting trees were either cut down by villagers in
last several years from many historical breeding colonies in Assam or some of
them destroyed due to natural causes.
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