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An Indian woman rag picker searches for material as a group of Greater Adjutant Stork seen in the background at a rubbish dump near Deepor Beel Wildlife Sanctuary on the outskirts of Guwahati city, India, on May 10.
Fast vanishing wetlands in and around Guwahati city have now become a major threat for the survival of the Greater Adjutant Stork. Guwahati city has the largest concentration of the stork in the world but their numbers are gradually declining due to the loss of wetlands, habitat and declining availability of food.
In Nov. 2011, China Central Television wrote about India's efforts to save the endangered birds. Biologists helped educate the communities sharing land with the birds' habitats about the importance of the species to the environment.
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An Indian rag picker girls search for material as a group of Greater Adjutant Stork seen in the background at a rubbish dump near Deepor Beel Wildlife Sanctuary on the outskirts of Guwahati city, India, on May 10.
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Some actual information would have been appreciated. Is the cause from people draining the wetlands to live there like what Americans did to Florida? Is the area one of subsiding land, where the land sinks? Are there river systems that have been changed by man in a poor attempt to control natural flooding like around New Orleans? Natural seasonal flooding deposits silt that continually builds up the naturally sinking land. Interfere with that and there is loss of wetlands. Is the loss of food supply due to over fishing or from loss of wetlands or is it a combination?
I can't wait to read comments from people who have never been to India and whose only knowledge of the country is from watching "slumdog millionaire"
same-old, same-old happening... everywhere, as habitat for critters is destroyed for the only population on earth that has no population control and growing exponentially -- humankind
Well doesn't surprise me one of the best spots on the local birding tour is the Brownsville city dump. They even have Tshirts for sale.