Forest Departments closes Wildlife sanctuaries
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People urged villagers not to enter the areas for firewood collection and fishing
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People urged villagers not to enter the areas for firewood collection and fishing
With COVID-19 cases on the rise, the Forests Department has decided to close all wildlife sanctuaries, eco-tourism projects and national parks in the State.
To prevent public gatherings during the second wave of Ccronavirus, all deer parks, bird sanctuaries and eco-tourism parks have been closed from Saturday, officials said.
Papikonda National Park, Sri Venkateswara Park and Rajiv Gandhi Park and the Kolleru Wildlife Sanctuary (WLS), Coringa, Krishna, Rollapadu, Rajiv Gandhi, Nelapattu, Pulicat, Kaundinya, Sri Venkateswara, Atapaka Bird Sanctuaries, Hamsaladeevi and other sanctuaries and tourism places have been closed.
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The water body is filled to the brim after decades
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The water body is filled to the brim after decades
In a rare sighting, forest officials spotted Grey-headed gulls (
Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus)
at the Kolleru Lake near Kolletikota recently.
This is the first time that the birds, which are found mainly in South America and in Africa south of the Sahara, were spotted at the water body.
The grey-headed gulls have red bills and legs and the underwings are dark grey in colour with black wing tips. They lay two to three eggs each in nests prepared in bushes on floating grass in the waters.
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It will cover Kolleru Lake and Coringa and Krishna sanctuaries
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Pelicans taking care of their chicks on a tree at Kolleru Lake in West Godavari district.
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K.V.S. GIRI
It will cover Kolleru Lake and Coringa and Krishna sanctuaries
The Rajamahendravaram Wildlife Management Division of the Andhra Pradesh Forest Department will conduct a two-day waterbird census in the Coringa Wildlife Sanctuary and adjoining areas in the Godavari estuary, Kolleru Lake including Atapaka Bird Sanctuary and Krishna Wildlife Sanctuary in Krishna estuary in the State on January 5 and 6.
The annual census will be done by the Forest Department with technical support from the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) and Wetland International as part of the Asian Waterbird Census-2021, that is aimed at monitoring the wetlands and waterbirds in the designated areas.
Atapaka Bird Sanctuary opens for tourists
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More than 10,000 birds were counted in the pelicanry, says official
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Pelicans with their young ones sitting on the iron stands in Atapaka Bird Sanctuary. | Photo Credit: GIRI KVS
More than 10,000 birds were counted in the pelicanry, says official
Atapaka Bird Sanctuary, located in Kolleru lake on Krishna-West Godavari borders, was opened for tourists after a gap of eight months. The Forest Department declared the pelicanry open for the public on Friday (January 1).
Thousands of tourists from Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Karnataka, Chhattisgarh, Puducherry and other States visit the sanctuary, also known as bird’s paradise, every year.
Mystery illness raises concerns over Kolleru pollution
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Environmentalists seek steps to check release of effluents into the lake
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Environmentalists seek steps to check release of effluents into the lake
The outbreak of a mysterious illness in Eluru and the neighbouring villages in West Godavari district is a wake-up call on the increasing pollution levels in the Kolleru Lake and other water bodies in Andhra Pradesh and it’s high time the State and Central governments took steps to prevent air and water pollution to avoid health hazards, say environmentalists.
More than 600 people fell sick due to the undiagnosed illness in the last few days. Experts from the National Institute of Nutrition (NIN), Hyderabad, found the presence of herbicides in the vegetable samples collected from the affected areas while the scientists of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS-Mangalagiri and New Delhi), who tested the blood samples of some patie