Mumbai, June 2
A Curlew Sandpiper tagged in Mumbai by Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) has been spotted in the Tianjin province of China, around 4,500 kms away, marking a significant achievement
Birds ringed in India spotted in China, Pakistan, Uzbekistan
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Study reveals fascinating insights into their ability to fly down thousands of kilometres
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Study reveals fascinating insights into their ability to fly down thousands of kilometres
A Northern Shoveler, a medium sized bird, which flew down to Odisha’s Chilika Lake for wintering in February 2018 was spotted at Yazyavan in Uzbekistan in April 2021. Three years after a Terek Sandpiper was tagged at Gujarat’s Gulf of Kutch, it was spotted in Jandola in Pakistan’s Khyber in May.
Similarly, a Curlew Sandpiper spotted and tagged in March 2019 at Navi Mumbai was sighted in Tangu saltpans, China’s Tainjin in May.
A video of him making a joke on BSP leader Mayawati surfaced this week. (File photo)
NEW DELHI: Actor Randeep Hooda has been removed as ambassador of the Convention for the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS), an environment treaty of the United Nations, in the wake of surfacing of a nine-year-old video where he was seen making a joke on Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader and former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, Mayawati.
Many on social media reacted to his remarks, terming it “casteist and sexist”. The video clip from an event, organised by a media house in 2012, went viral after it was shared on micro-blogging site Twitter early this week.
The slogan for 2021 is We re part of the solution . (Representational)
New Delhi:
To celebrate natural diversity and spread awareness, May 22 is marked every year as the International Day for Biological Diversity (IDB) globally.
Earlier, December 29 was designated as the International Day for Biological Diversity but in 2000, the UN General Assembly chose May 22 to mark the day.
Every year, there is a theme or slogan that sets the tone of the campaign.
The slogan for 2021 is We re part of the solution .
The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) announces the theme each year.
The CBD says that this year s theme is a continuation of the momentum generated last year through the slogan: Our solutions are in nature , which served as a reminder that biodiversity remains the answer to several sustainable development challenges.
Since 2007, some 198,000 gigalitres of environmental water had been released into the Murray-Darling Basin – the equivalent of almost 400 Sydney Harbours of water.
Research at the university’s Fenner School of Environment and Society looked at eight species listed nationally as threatened: two frogs, two waterbirds and four fish.
After reviewing all available data on the location and number of the species, the analysis published in the journal Marine and Freshwater Research found “no overall beneficial effect in terms of population increase of threatened species from environmental watering under the Basin Plan”.
Prof Jamie Pittock, a co-author of the research, told Guardian Australia: “Our overall finding is that there is no evidence of any improvement after reallocating about 2,000 billion litres of water and spending those billions of dollars.”