Imphal, April 17 (IANS) The Manipur government has announced plans to develop a bird sanctuary at Kharungpat in Kakching district, in a move aimed at strengthening biodiversity conservation and promoting eco-tourism in the state, officials said on Friday.A senior forest official said the proposed sanctuary will cover around 227 hectares, accounting for about 6.7 per cent of the total wetland area. The site is considered ecologically significant, particularly for the conservation of waterbirds, i…
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Gandhinagar, Feb 6 (IANS) More than 80 per cent of visitors to the Chhari-Dhand wetland in Gujarat’s Kutch district are foreign nationals, according to tour operators and ornithologists, highlighting the site’s growing international profile even as conservation efforts at the wetland continue to expand. Spread across 22,700 hectares and covering 12 villages, Chhari-Dhand is located between desert terrain and grasslands and supports one of the densest concentrations of migratory birds in west…
New Delhi, Jan 31 (IANS) Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Bhupender Yadav announced the addition of two new wetlands, one each in Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat, to India’s Ramsar network, ahead of World Wetlands Day on February 2, an official said on Saturday. The Minister informed that the newly-recognised Patna Bird Sanctuary in Etah district of Uttar Pradesh and Chhari-Dhand in Kutch district of Gujarat provide habitat to hundreds of migratory and resident bird species….