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Birds
Dangerzone
Issue Date: Sep 15, 1998
CONSERVATIONISTS in the UK plan to use explosions and gunfire to scare migrant birds away from parts of a wintering site poisoned by an environmental disaster. They will lay down food in less polluted areas of a Spanish nature reserve that is home to thousands of birds flying south from the UK every year.
BIRDS SET FREE
Issue Date: Sep 15, 1998
But for a timely court order, 500 birds which were illegally captured would have been sold in Delhi on August 7. Following a tip-off, an eight-member team of the forest and wildlife department of the Delhi government raided a house in east Delhi and recovered the birds kept in six cages. The captured birds were produced hi the court of additional chief metropolitan magistrate, J R Aryan. The court ordered the birds to be set free in their natural habitat in the Kamla Nehru Ridge in Delhi.
Who will play Cupid?
Issue Date: Aug 15, 1998
The Broken Arrows
The relationships between plants and pollinators took thousands of years to develop. Human intervention has destroyed them in a very short period. Pollinator decline is also affecting the harvest. Therefore, it is vital to conserve them, but research in this field is lacking in India
Put to the horn
Issue Date: Jul 15, 1998
finally , the mystery of the disappearing Siberian cranes in the Keoladeo Ghana National Park, Bharatpur, Rajasthan, has been partly solved. And for those willing to learn in India's wildlife management community, there are several valuable lessons.
Choked lake
Issue Date: Jun 30, 1998
increasing silt load and spreading nets of prawn culturists are slowly throttling Chilka, Asia's biggest salt water lake spread over 1,100-sq-km. It is estimated that rivers and rivulets such as Nuna, Kusumi and Salia carry about 13 million tonnes of silt into the lake alongwith fresh water every year.
Dying wings
Issue Date: Jun 15, 1998
Hundreds, perhaps, even thousands of migratory birds are dying in the eastern US and Canada due to salmonella bacteria, the US National Wildlife Health Center (nwhc) announced recently. The organisation has found the bacteria in dead birds form over American 10 states since January this year and is in the process of testing corpses received from four more states. Bacteriologists are not yet sure of the strains responsible for this avian carnage and the nwhc is still to determine the exact number of birds killed so far.
Birds no more
Issue Date: May 15, 1998
the Great Indian Bustard, which is also the state bird of Rajasthan, is fast becoming extinct due to human encroachment on its habitat. The birds known as Maldhok in Maharashtra and Godawan in Rajasthan, are found in the dry grasslands of the region that are being brought under cultivation to meet the needs of a burgeoning population in the states. Overgrazing of the region by cattle compounds the problem further.
Who ate my house?
Issue Date: Apr 30, 1998
Slipping out
Issue Date: Apr 30, 1998
Everybody must get stones
Issue Date: Apr 15, 1998
Lloyd Davis, zoologist at University of Otago, New Zealand, says that penguins use a practice similar to prostitution in order to obtain stones for their nests. Davis has made nine visits to Antarctica to study penguin behaviour. "They are not nearly as faithful as we thought," he says. "They swap partners quite frequently," he adds. Female penguins insulate their nests with stones, and males are expected to provide these. Davis points out that males get a quick copulation for their troubles, although they are often tricked by the females.
