AHMEDABAD: Every December, Nalsarovar lake reverberates with the chirping of lakhs of birds and the awestruck hum of other folks marveling at nature's spectacle.
This yr, the picturesque site spreads out like a field of devastation: dry land has sucked life into its cracks. Overturned boats entire the scene of blight. There are no birds and there is not any water this December at Nalsarovar. Visitors wade through unhappiness. For boatmen, cases are worse: a yr's livelihood has flown away.
Nalsarovar lake is Gujarat's most effective Ramsar site. Unesco's Ramsar convention, named after the Iranian town the place the convention used to be inked in 1971, seeks to offer protection to wetlands of world significance.
Forest officers concede that Nalsarovar, unfold over 120 sq.km, has totally dried up. The final time it sported such a desolate look used to be 16 years ago, in 2002. "There is just a 300 sq metre patch of inch deep water at Nalsarovar now. That too is expected to disappear in the next 10 days," stated S J Pandit, deputy conservator of forests of Nalsarovar.
Senior officers informed TOI that poor rains this monsoon and non-release of Narmada waters for winter crops for the past two years is the principle explanation why for the drying up of the lake.
Officials stated that migratory birds have made brief home 22km away in Badla village in Surendranagar while many have flown to Jamnagar and Porbandar at the Saurashtra coast. Forest officers say winter at Nalsarovar attracts, on a median, 1.25 lakh birds including the famed Greater Flamingos. During 2016 census, three.13 lakh birds have been recorded in Nalsarovar and nearby spaces.
This yr, the picturesque site spreads out like a field of devastation: dry land has sucked life into its cracks. Overturned boats entire the scene of blight. There are no birds and there is not any water this December at Nalsarovar. Visitors wade through unhappiness. For boatmen, cases are worse: a yr's livelihood has flown away.
Nalsarovar lake is Gujarat's most effective Ramsar site. Unesco's Ramsar convention, named after the Iranian town the place the convention used to be inked in 1971, seeks to offer protection to wetlands of world significance.
Forest officers concede that Nalsarovar, unfold over 120 sq.km, has totally dried up. The final time it sported such a desolate look used to be 16 years ago, in 2002. "There is just a 300 sq metre patch of inch deep water at Nalsarovar now. That too is expected to disappear in the next 10 days," stated S J Pandit, deputy conservator of forests of Nalsarovar.
Senior officers informed TOI that poor rains this monsoon and non-release of Narmada waters for winter crops for the past two years is the principle explanation why for the drying up of the lake.
Officials stated that migratory birds have made brief home 22km away in Badla village in Surendranagar while many have flown to Jamnagar and Porbandar at the Saurashtra coast. Forest officers say winter at Nalsarovar attracts, on a median, 1.25 lakh birds including the famed Greater Flamingos. During 2016 census, three.13 lakh birds have been recorded in Nalsarovar and nearby spaces.
Guj: Winged visitors give barren Nalsarovar a miss
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December 09, 2018
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