In an effort to save the great Indian bustard from flying into power lines, a Supreme Court order is asking for transmission lines in a large swathe of India’s western borders to go underground. The April ruling was a result of a petition filed in 2019 by M.K. Ranjitsinh Jhala,Continue Reading
The great Indian bustard (GIB) which is only found in India and certain areas of Pakistan, is classified as “critically endangered” by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. In a census in 2017-18 of the entire range of the Great Indian Bustard, it was estimated that there were aboutContinue Reading
For the large Great Indian Bustard of the Rajasthan desert, the windmill – or the large wind turbine — is no imaginary enemy. Birds meet a bloody end trying to negotiate the high-tension wires and wind turbines in this region. In a census in 2017-18 of the entire range ofContinue Reading
India’s proposal to include Great Indian Bustard, Asian Elephant and Bengal Florican in Appendix I of UN Convention on migratory species was unanimously accepted today at the ongoing thirteenth Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) in Gandhinagar. Placing Indian elephant in Schedule I of theContinue Reading
