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Watching the birds | Footloose | thenews com pk

April 25, 2021 A perennial freshwater lake, Haleji remains among the biggest bird sanctuaries in Asia and a birding heaven, despite being a picnic spot and home to several crocodiles As we headed towards one of our favourite birding spots, we were quite certain that our return will be in the agonising, scorching heat, since the summer wave had engulfed Sindh already. However, we had already yielded to the love of birding as we headed out at 5 in the morning to make it just in time during the pleasant morning hours at Haleji Lake. Haleji is a perennial freshwater lake, located in the Thatta district, 90 kilometres away from Karachi. It takes almost two hours to reach it when early morning road traffic is negligible. Once you are there, watching the mesmerising sunrise at the lake is highly recommended. It is also the best time for bird watching. Home to Siberian migratory birds, the lake is 6.58 square kilometres in are and has a depth of 16 feet, not to mention that it is home als

Gone fishing: the fight to save one of the world s most elusive wild cats

Wed 17 Feb 2021 05.30 EST Last modified on Mon 1 Mar 2021 05.35 EST For more than a decade, wildlife biologist Tiasa Adhya has spent many a day in the wetlands and mangroves of the Indian states of West Bengal and Odisha, looking for signs of a rarely seen wild cat – the fishing cat ( ). “Fishing cats are fascinating animals,” she says. “They have co-inhabited riverine deltas and floodplains alongside humans for centuries. Ancient cultures like the Khmer empire show evidence of fishing cats.” As co-founder of the world’s longest-running fishing cat research and conservation project, Kolkata-based Adhya is dedicated to this endangered felid, one of the least-studied and understood wildcats.

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