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'Very Very Important Chick': Meet India’s most protected newly hatched bird. Tiny life guarded like a VIP by 50 officialsA Great Indian Bustard chick hatched in Gujarat, a rare conservation success. Forest officials are providing round-the-clock protection for...
Extinction watch: The great Indian bustard species may vanish & whyDepending on what’s available, the bustard will eat worms, small mammals and small reptiles. Locusts, crickets and beetles make the bulk of...
Wildlife board panel to consider suggestions: Govt to SC
Great Indian Bustard population less than 300 now: GovernmentThe population of Great Indian Bustard, a critically endangered species, is estimated to be less than 300 now and its numbers are declining.
'The movie was made to save critically endangered Great Indian Bustard'Ornithologist Pramod Patil has been conferred with the prestigious Whitley Award, popularly called the 'Green Oscar', for his work on the c...
Desert National Park in Rajasthan welcomes baby 'Godawan'A hatchling of the Great Indian Bustard (Godawan), a near-extinct species and the state bird of Rajasthan, was born at the Desert National ...
- Great Indian bustard to get new lease of life in Gujarat
Conservation in Gujarat has got another boost with the central government sanctioning a breeding centre for the great Indian bustard.
Great Indian Bustard declared 'critically endangered'In its Red List of 2013 announced recently by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the Great Indian Bustard (GIB) has...
Work on breeding centre for Great Indian Bustard started: GovernmentMinister of State for Environment Prakash Javadekar in a written reply to Rajya Sabha said the proposal is still in its initial stage and h...
15 Indian bird species among globally endangeredFifteen Indian bird species are part of a list of avians which are evolutionarily distinct and globally endangered.
3 Gujarat bird species in 'endangered' listThe latest 'red list' of endangered bird species released by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) includes 15 Indian b...
- Great Indian Bustard sighted in rural Maharashtra
The Great Indian Bustard has found a new abode in two rural tehsils here, prompting forest authorities to start tracking the movement of th...
Panel set up to conserve the endangered bustardThe Nashik forest department range has set up a Bustard Conservation Committee and has forwarded a proposal of the plan to the state govern...
- Great Indian Bustard to be tracked by satellite
The Great Indian Bustard, one of the critically endangered flying bird species in the world, will soon be tracked by satellite by the Wildl...
- Bird hunting creates friction between India, Pak: Report
The hunting of endangered houbara bustards by members of Arab royal families in Pakistan has led to friction along the Indo-Pak frontier, w...
- Indian species on most threatened list
They may disappear even before we get to know them. Four Indian species feature in a list of the ‘100 most threatened’ species in the world.
Goverment to launch recovery programme for Great Indian BustardIndia is launching a recovery programme for Great Indian Bustard, one of the largest flying bird species, which is on the brink of extincti...
- Five bird species in Maharashtra on the verge of extinction
The birds found in Maharashtra are White-rumped vulture, Indian vulture, Red-headed vulture, Forest owlet and Sociable lapwing.
- Shrinking species suffers from poor genetic diversity
A recent study of the Great Indian Bustard (Ardeotis nigriceps) population in India shows that the species suffers from poorgenetic diversi...
Rare bustard sighted at Churu sanctuaryA pair of Great Indian Bustard was sighted at the Tal Chappar sanctuary in Churu district earlier this month.