In a report ready by Birdlife Worldwide, 422 wetlands, grasslands and forests of India have been deemed to be of worldwide significance for a whole bunch of species of worldwide migratory birds, which migrate alongside the Central Asian Flyway (CAF) area. That is the best variety of such websites listed as essential among the many 30 CAF area nations and contains 19 wetlands of Gujarat.
Central Asian Flyway Scenario Evaluation, 2023 — a kind of baseline report ready by Birdlife Worldwide and printed on January 30 — is a part of the agenda of the 14th Convention of Events (COP) to the Conference on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS) that started at Samarkand in Uzbekistan on Sunday.
The report has been ready after holding nationwide consultations and finding out current databases of Birdlife Worldwide, varied treatises and memorandums of understanding amongst CAF nation states, amongst others, in 2022-23.
The report acknowledged that “the Central Asian Flyway, one of many world’s 9 nice flyways utilized by migratory birds to journey between their breeding and non-breeding grounds, remains to be probably the most uncared for by way of data and conservation motion”.
It added, “…migratory birds are essential sentinels of the well being of our surroundings. As they journey, they depend on websites and landscapes typically hundreds of kilometres aside to relaxation and refuel for the following leg of their extraordinary journeys. Decline in migratory fowl populations sign environmental degradation of the identical websites and landscapes which can be so essential for hundreds of thousands of individuals for meals, clear water and different environmental providers, significantly for local weather change mitigation and adaptation.”
The report praises India’s proposal to develop an institutional framework within the type of an initiative for conservation of birds and their habitats within the CAF area. The Birdlife Worldwide mentioned its report gives a “factual baseline” for initiating such a course of. India’s proposal to arrange a CAF secretariat workplace can be scheduled to be taken up for dialogue throughout COP14, which is able to go on until February 17.
The report acknowledged that 605 species of migratory birds from 84 households, together with waterbirds, raptors, landbirds and seabirds, use CAF that covers Eurasia between the Arctic and the Indian Ocean. It included a working listing of 1717 “internationally essential websites of migratory birds”. The listing included 422 websites in India, the best amongst all CAF area states.
The 422 Indian websites embrace 54 in Assam, 38 in Uttarpradesh, 33 in Karnataka, 29 every in Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu, 27 in Arunachal Pradesh and 19 every in Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat. Different Indian states with vital numbers of such websites are Jammu and Kashmir (18), Andhra Pradesh (14), Bihar (14), Kerala (9), Odisha (8), Himachal Pradesh (8) and Kerala (7), amongst others. These websites, the report acknowledged, hosts greater than 20,000 birds or one per cent of biogeographical inhabitants of a migratory species.
The listing of 19 websites in Gujarat embrace Banni grassland, Chhari Dhand wetland, Flamingo Metropolis and Naliya grassland in Kutch, Bhal space abutting Anand, Ahmedabad, Botad and Bhavnagar districts, Charakala Saltworks in Devbhumi Dwarka, Marine Nationwide Park, Khijadia Fowl Sanctuary in Jamnagar, Nal Sarovar Fowl Sanctuary and Thol Wildlife Sanctuary in Ahmedabad, Gir Nationwide Park and Wildlife Sanctuary, Blackbuck Nationwide Park and saltworks in Bhavnagar, Wild Ass Sanctuary in Surendranagar, wetlands of Kheda and Gosabara-Mokarsagar wetland advanced in Porbandar.
The working listing enlists 345 such websites from Russia, 127 from Kazakhstan, 125 from China, 99 from Iran, 83 from Mongolia, 51 from Uzbekistan and 49 from Turkmenistan.