Ahmedabad: New toxic threat to nasar birds has been identified by researchers – Nimesulide pain relievers have been found as dangerous with diklofenac, similar drugs known to cause birds foralities in Gujarat.
Nimesulide is used to relieve pain in humans and animals.
The researchers said if the use of nimesulide animals continued, it would definitely take the victim above the nasar which was white grass in the state.
A research paper by Kanhan Nambirajan, Subramanian Muralidharan, Aditya Roy, and Shashikant Jadhav revealed that at least four hot bird deaths whose white grass can be associated with nimesulide several times in Gujarat.
Two birds were found in Sanand in Ahmedabad and the other two in Dhrangadhra in Surendranagar.
The research paper stated that after postmortem examination, the network of several Nasar birds was accepted for toxicological investigations at the National Ecotoxicology Center of Avian, the center of Ornithology and natural history of Salim.
“Network is filtered for a toxic set of pesticides, and nothing at the level that can be detected,” said the newspaper.
“Furthermore, the network was analyzed for thirteen nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and paracetamol.
Of all drugs tested, only nimesulide detected in all networks, indication of exposure.” The first NASAR census in 2005 found 2,642 birds in Gujarat; Number 2018 Only 820.
So the number of bird scavengers in Gujarat has dropped by almost 70% between 2005 and 2018.
“in four Nasar birds, we only found nimesulide which is an indication that nimesulide is equally toxic like Diklofenac,” said Roy, one of the researchers.
“Visceral gout was also observed in all four Nasar birds during postmortem examination.” Roy added: “The nimesulide residue in the network with gout symptoms shows that the Nasar bird died of nimesulide poisoning because no other NSAID was found.” The researchers said they would be recommended that nimesulide was prohibited by the government to preserve white nasar-tones in Indian continental children.
Roy said that the Hering of Asia who saved from the extinction group (Save) would make representations for the Ministry of Environment and Union Forest and to the Ministry of Animal Husbandry Union to ban Nimesulide.
“We in Gujarat will fulfill food control and drugs and officials of the livestock department,” said Roy.
“We will urge officials to forbade drugs in the state or at least in the district with a large population.” Roy said that the European Union had forbade drugs and Gujarat had to follow.
‘New toxic threat to prey on Nasar birds in Gujarat’
