World Environment Day 2019 - #BeatAirPollution
A busy National Highway (NH12) and a tree packed with migrating storks, at the periphery of Raiganj Wildlife Sanctuary, West Bengal, India. The photo was taken in October 2018. More than 100,000 storks came to this sanctuary during 2018, forming one of the World’s largest concentrations of Asian open-billed stork. Oversaturation forces them to build nests over a noisy and polluted National Highway.
Despite numerous government pledges, biodiversity and habitat loss is accelerating in all regions of the world. Caring for the planet is vital for our survival!
Each World Environment Day is organized around a theme that draws attention to a particularly pressing environmental concern. The theme for 2019 is Air pollution.
Asian open-billed stork - Anastomus oscitans (Shamukh Khol in Bengal) in the Raiganj Wildlife Sanctuary (Kulik Bird Sanctuary)
A resident colonial breeder distributed in tropical Southeast Asia. During monsoon period, the Kulik river enters the sanctuary, which supports a wide variety of food for the open billed stork. The main diet of the bird is apple snail, Pila globosa or other types of snail which grows in large number in the smaller or larger water bodies surrounding Kulik. Every year large number of this bird species come in the sanctuary only for breeding purpose. According to the field report prepared by the Divisional Forest Officer (DFO), more than 100,000 storks came to Kulik during 2018, forming one of the World’s largest concentrations of this group!
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Images of Bengal, India
World Environment Day 2019 - #BeatAirPollution
A busy National Highway (NH12) and a tree packed with migrating storks, at the periphery of Raiganj Wildlife Sanctuary, West Bengal, India. The photo was taken in October 2018. More than 100,000 storks came to this sanctuary during 2018, forming one of the World’s largest concentrations of Asian open-billed stork. Oversaturation forces them to build nests over a noisy and polluted National Highway.
Despite numerous government pledges, biodiversity and habitat loss is accelerating in all regions of the world. Caring for the planet is vital for our survival!
Each World Environment Day is organized around a theme that draws attention to a particularly pressing environmental concern. The theme for 2019 is Air pollution.
Asian open-billed stork - Anastomus oscitans (Shamukh Khol in Bengal) in the Raiganj Wildlife Sanctuary (Kulik Bird Sanctuary)
A resident colonial breeder distributed in tropical Southeast Asia. During monsoon period, the Kulik river enters the sanctuary, which supports a wide variety of food for the open billed stork. The main diet of the bird is apple snail, Pila globosa or other types of snail which grows in large number in the smaller or larger water bodies surrounding Kulik. Every year large number of this bird species come in the sanctuary only for breeding purpose. According to the field report prepared by the Divisional Forest Officer (DFO), more than 100,000 storks came to Kulik during 2018, forming one of the World’s largest concentrations of this group!
Interesting Read:
Images of Bengal, India