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Govt. to set up wildlife rescue centres
The Hindu
The State government has decided to set up three ‘rescue, treatment and rehabilitation centres’ (RTRCs) for wildlife in Coimbatore, Tiruchi and Tirunelveli districts. As a first step, a detail project
The State government has decided to set up three ‘rescue, treatment and rehabilitation centres’ (RTRCs) for wildlife in Coimbatore, Tiruchi and Tirunelveli districts. As a first step, a detail project report (DPR) will be prepared soon.
In an order, Environment and Forests Secretary Supriya Sahu said RTRCs would be equipped with state-of-the-art facilities and trained staff to provide specialised treatment with operation theatres, laboratories and other essential diagnostic equipment. The centres will also train rescue teams.
Its objectives are to rescue injured, orphaned and sick wild animals, including those that stray into human habitations, and provide expertise and service for scientific quarantine, rehabilitation and release of wild animals in identified habitats. The centre will provide consultation and guidance to address man-animal conflicts. A DPR will be prepared in consultation with the experts and field teams.
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When fed into Latin, pusilla comes out denoting “very small”. The Baillon’s crake can be missed in the field, when it is at a distance, as the magnification of the human eye is woefully short of what it takes to pick up this tiny creature. The other factor is the Baillon’s crake’s predisposition to present less of itself: it moves about furtively and slides into the reeds at the slightest suspicion of being noticed. But if you are keen on observing the Baillon’s crake or the ruddy breasted crake in the field, in Chennai, this would be the best time to put in efforts towards that end. These birds live amidst reeds, the bulrushes, which are likely to lose their density now as they would shrivel and go brown, leaving wide gaps, thereby reducing the cover for these tiddly birds to stay inscrutable.