Ahmedabad: The Great Indian Busard (GIB), which is a ‘Gibi’ mascot for a conservation conference that is not supported in Gandhinagar, seems to have disappeared from His Kutch asylum.
At least it seems to occur on January 1, 2021, when there is no single GIB seen in the sanctuary.
This information was provided by the State Minister of Union for the Environment, Forest and Climate Change of Ashwini Kumar Choubey on Monday.
The minister answered questions from the Parliamentary members of the Shakticinh Gohil Congress in the GIB population in the sanctuary and the number of deaths caused by electrical channels and windmills in the area.
Gohil also asked about the steps taken by the government to prevent death.
Choubey said that the question did not appear because the birds were not present in the sanctuary.
Keut Gib Sanctuary, spread over 2 square kilometers, often praised as one of the best habitats for endangered species.
Gibi is a mascot for the 13th party (COP) conference to the conservation convention of wild animal migration species (CMS), in Gandhinagar in February 2019.
CMS is an environmental agreement agreed under the AEGIS UN environment program.
The Indian government has transferred a proposal in February 2019 at the COP-CMS Convention in Gujarat for the inclusion of GIBS in Appendix 1.
After this was done, the CMS, which included more than 124 countries, would strive to protect the species.
It includes actions such as preserving or recovering places where they live, reduce barriers to migration, and control other factors that can endanger them.
Four Gibs Women are regularly seen in Kutch Some wildlife experts say that the statement of the Union Minister of Lost Gibs is a matter of data interpretation.
Others said that it was the government’s efforts to rest the problem of taking underground electric cables in the line with the recent direction of the Supreme Court to ensure the safety of GIBS.
“Four GIB women are regularly seen at Kutch.
Also, this area is home to around 20 lower floricans that are seen regularly,” said Anita Karang, Head of Forest Conservator, Circle Kutch (wildlife).
“This is part of the Migration route of Central Asian flies and a large number of migration species that are seen here during the winter.” While Kutch Bustard Sanctuary was spread in 2 square kilometers, the Habitat Gib at Kutch stretched at 2,000 square kilometers.
The four women are often seen in the range of 20-70km from the holy area, the source said.
GIB is an endangered bird with his final breeding population in India.
About 100 of these extraordinary grasslands remain in the world.
Despite the loss and degradation of habitat has been responsible for the decline in this bird in the past few decades, their deaths because collisions with the current overhead power lines are the biggest direct threat.
During the 14th meeting of the State Council for wildlife in February 2019, the Minister of Chief Gujarat Vijay Rupani said that regardless of the costs, the parties concerned had to put down the underground electricity channel.
On April 19, the Supreme Court order directed that the power line was taken underground.
The command makes it mandatory for all power lines in the habitat of ‘potential’ and ‘priority’ of Gibs to be placed underground in the future.
“Apart from the guarantee by Gujarat’s head minister, not one electrical channel has been taken underground in Kutch,” said Devesh Gadhvi, a member of the Bustard Specialist group, the International Union for Nature Conservation.
Gadhvi is also a member of the Supreme Court’s bookmate committee to determine the feasibility of taking the underground transmission path.
The Wildlife Institute of India estimates that 18 gibs die every year due to collisions with electrical lines.
Gibs need pastures and semi-dry areas to survive.
According to the last census of Gibs in Gujarat, in 2016 there were 25 in the wild, a quick decline from 2007 when 48 was recorded.