Press Trust of India / Ahmedabad January 28, 2013, 11:45
The Gujarat government will draw up an action plan on wildlife
conservation in association with International Union for Conservation of
Nature (IUCN).
"In the first week of February, we shall be drawing the outline
of future action programme on conservation with IUCN," Principal Chief
Conservator of Forests C N Pandey said.
The state government recently signed an MoU with IUCN with a
view to leverage knowledge-sharing with species-specific groups within
the international body and to conduct research.
Asiatic Lions are the stars of Gujarat wildlife. But the partnership
between the state and IUCN would go beyond it, and take into
consideration all the endangered local species such as turtles and
dugong (a rare marine mammal), Pandey said. It will develop strategies
for conservation.
"We are organising a workshop in February with IUCN on raptor (prey birds) conservation," Pandey said.
Gujarat has a noticeable population of prey birds species such
as harriers, falcons, eagles, kites in the Velavadar Blackbuck National
Park area, Bhavnagar.
The harrier roost at Velavadar is amongst the largest in the world, experts say. Harriers belong to the hawk family.
"We would benefit from IUCN tie-up in terms of international
research too, which is important for conservation, as a large number of
species happen to be globe- rangers," Pandey said.
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