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“Birds teach a great life lesson. All you have to do is listen to their song”: Chilika in Odisha is the largest brackish water lake in Asia and great attraction for tourists for fishing, bird watching & boating, indigenous & migratory birds are a delight
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Apart from migratory birds, the survey spotted 38,880 local birds that reside at the lake. In Nalabana Bird Sanctuary in the lake, enumerators found a total of 3,42,897 birds
"A mystic Himalayan Griffon is a bird who separates heaven and earth with his wings": A rare vulture was captured in Eidgah cemetery of Kanpur's Colonelganj, locals handed it over to Forest Department after capturing it, had been there for a week
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The Griffon Vulture was rescued by locals from the Eidgah cemetery of Kanpur's Colonelganj and later handed over to the Uttar Pradesh Forest Department
“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago”: Great banyan tree in Kolkata's Botanical Garden is world's widest tree with 3600 aerial roots spread in 156000 sqfeet area gives an impression of thick patch of forest
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A single tree's 2,800 aerial roots give the appearance of a complete forest
"There is no index of character so sure as the voice": Pahadi Mayna of Chhattisgarh reproduce an exact pronunciation as humans at times, it begin to learn human speech sounds under social relationships, for bird to talk you must intrude on its social life
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The Kanger Valley National Park in Chhattisgarh is famous for the Bastar hill mynah, a subspecies of the common hill mynah which is protected under Schedule 1 (b) of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972.
"It is in the roots, not branches, that a tree’s greatest strength lies": Cherrapunji a North Eastern paradise in Meghalaya, land abundant in rainfall and popular for lush green hills and living root bridges, handmade from aerial roots of rubber fig trees
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In many villages across the region, the root bridges are little more than a memory
“There’s only one way to tackle life, enjoy a day at beach, and jump into a Great Lake: Headfirst!”: 'LAKES' to 'LAYOUT', how lake areas transformed into residential & commercial entities, educational institutes, bus stands, stadiums etc. and at what cost
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Despite lakes serving an important ecological function, Bengaluru's government bodies that govern these lakes do not have comprehensive, updated, public records of all lakes
Chipko Andolan: Cut me down before you cut them down
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When all talking failed, and the loggers started to shout and abuse the women, threatening them with guns, the women resorted to hugging the trees to stop them from being felled