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CREW Report April 25: Bhopal will soon have a notified bird watching zone in the area adjoining Van Vihar National Park along the picturesque Upper Lake , which is a perfect habitat for hundreds of species of resident and migratory birds. This was announced by Madhya Pradesh Minister for Urban Administration and former state chief minister Babulal Gaur after he inspected the suitability of the location with a team of senior officers this weekend. It is an important migration area for Storks, grebe, bar headed goose and numerous ducks. In the winter season, this area becomes the home for the birds from Siberia and Himalayas . Talking to CREW, Mr. Gaur said: “after it is developed as a Birding zone, the area adjoining Van Vihar National Park, including Gora Bisenkhedi village would become one of the top locations in Central India for viewing winter migrations of birds that arrive here from Ladakh, and even northern Europe . The idea is to treat this project as a specializ...

These houses at Bariam village near Pachmarhi have been declared as illegal Violation of Wildlife Protection Act Booker Prize-winning novelist Arundhati Roy received a jolt this Thursday when the court of the divisional commissioner of Bhopal and Narmadapuram quashed an appeal against a lower court order declaring as illegal the purchase of land and construction of bungalows by her film maker husband Pradip Krishen and three others at Bariam village near Pachmarhi in Madhya Pradesh. The court of Bhopal and Narmadapuram Divisional Commissioner Manoj Shrivastava quashed the appeal of Mr. Krishen and three others challenging the November 2010 order of the Piparia sub-divisional magistrate declaring as illegal the bungalows constructed by Mr. Krishen, along with those built by renowned novelist Vikram Seth’s sister, a doctor Jagdish Chandra Sharma and a retired forest officer M.K. Jadhav. The divisional Commissioner’s court has issued the order quashing the appeal in this case by addr...

Click >>> Tigers-are they safe in Tiger Reserves On 14th December, 2006, tourists found a large male tiger in Kanha dragging an iron trap attached to one of its legs. Fortunately, there was timely action after the tourists had raised an alarm and the male tiger was tranquilized and rescued from the trap. Next year on October 27, a large male tiger was once more trapped by poachers in Kanha Tiger Reserve. This tiger also had a miraculous escape. The poachers had set three iron jaw traps on one of the main tracks passing through Kanha, near Chimpta Camp in Kisli Range. Some laborers sent there to repair the road and cut the grass along the track noticed the tiger caught in a trap. When the laborers came very close, the huge tiger, using all its strength, could manage to extricate itself free from the jaw trap. These two instances clearly show that the poachers strike their targets at will inside the Tiger Reserves. When contacted this is what the Kanha Park director, K. Nayak, ...

click>>>> Tiger Crisis-where lies the problem For long the central Indian State of Madhya Pradesh, blessed with the Satpura-Maikal landscape, has commanded the "Tiger State" status which has now gone to Karnataka. Till now, Madhya Pradesh was ahead of all other states in the country in terms of the estimated tiger population. The latest tiger figures that have put Madhya Pradesh in the second place behind Karnataka were released by Union Minister for Environment and Forest Jairam Ramesh in New Delhi on March 28, 2011. This interview by Srinivas Murthy, director Panna Tiger Reserve was recorded for CREW before he took up his present assignment at Panna. A CREW presentation. Category:

click>>> Black shouldered kite Black shouldered kite is found all over India till about 1500 meters in outer Himalayas. Its habitat is light forest, open scrub and grass country,

click >>> Glossy Ibis black ibis is a resident found throughout India from south of Himalayas (Terai to South). It It is gregarious and feeds with storks, spoonbills, egrest and other ibises in marshes and along riversides.

click >>> Grey Hornbill These birds are found in Haryana and Kumaon to extreme North-East; Central India-Madhya Pradesh, Bastar in Chhattisgarh and northern Andhra Pradesh.It lives around forests, orchards and groves