Of the two Great Indian Bustard chicks that hatched at the Conservation Breeding Centre in Jaisalmer, one was through natural mating, the other through artificial insemination.
Aimed at balancing GIB conservation and renewable energy needs, the recommended measures include habitat restoration, predator control, GPS monitoring & power line management.
Radheshyam Bishnoi, 28, died in car accident near Jaisalmer Friday along with two other conservationists and a forest guard. Bishnoi led a team to patrol and monitor GIB habitat.
The endangered Great Indian Bustard is one of the world’s largest flying birds whose numbers now hover at just around 150 in the wild. It typically lays just one egg a year.
Hand-fed and protected, artificially incubated great Indian bustards have been raised like pets at Jaisalmer's two conservation breeding centres. But their progeny hold the key to rewilding.
Jaisalmer, with its fledgling population of captive birds & a handful in the wild, is the bird’s final talisman—and about to become its final resting place.
The large, critically endangered birds with poor eyesight prefer arid areas, where they barely survive the death trap of power lines. Authorities have eyes for energy goals.
Three ministries — Environment and Forest, New and Renewable Energy, and Power — have submitted a modification application with respect to an April 2021 SC order.
A WII survey covering 80 kms of power lines across Thar desert found 4 bustard deaths during a single year due to high-transmission wires, including some connected to wind turbines.
In India, this bird can be seen from the Northern Peninsular to even in the South, like Kerala. However, the most amazing photographs of its murmurations are from Gujarat.
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