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Conservation of Waterfowl Breeding Habitats Program
The Wild Orissa Conservation of Waterfowl Breeding Habitats
Program has been a unique venture, started in the year 2000, which
focuses on the various breeding habitats located in the state of
Orissa. During this exercise many unknown breeding habitats were
discovered and studies undertaken to understand the threat
perception to each one of them. It was during this program that
Mangalajodi was detected to be one of India’s foremost breeding
grounds. It was here that Wild Orissa very carefully started the
involvement of the local people, who indulged in consumption and
sale of the bird meat and eggs, to protect these extremely
delicate eco-systems. The Bombay Natural History Society also
associated with Wild Orissa in the Mangalajodi program for a
certain period. This ongoing program has also helped in discovery
of places where extremely endangered species like the Darters
(Anhinga rufa), Black Bitterns (Ixobrychus flavicollisi), etc.
breed. An extremely interesting program, it is slowly exposing us
on the unknown realm of bird nests and bird eggs for the common
person!
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