Great Indian Bustard faces extinction despite conservation efforts
- The Great Indian Bustard GIB, once a contender for India’s national bird, is now close to extinction.
- Its population has fallen from an estimated 1,260 birds in the 1960s to fewer than 150 today.
- Power-line collisions are a major threat, with the bird’s flight path overlapping with solar-energy transmission wires.
- Feral dogs, habitat loss and the bird’s slow reproduction are adding to the pressure, despite ongoing conservation efforts.
Source: theprint.in
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