KAKINADA: Rajamahendravaram circle chief conservator of forests (CCF) S. Saravanan exhorted forest personnel to implement India’s Action Plan for protecting migratory birds by preserving their Central Asian Flyway and habitations en route.
He was inaugurating a two-day training programme on Bird Migrations, Monitoring, Migration Study Techniques, Central Asian Flyway Action Plan and Wild Bird Disease Surveillance on Thursday at the Coringa Biodiversity Centre. The training programme is being organised jointly by the Forest Department and Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS).
As many as 44 forest officials managing wildlife habitats at Pulicat, Kolleru, Coringa and Telineelapuram sanctuaries, apart from forest divisions in Amalapuram, Tirupati, Rajamahendravaram and Visakhapatnam circles participated in the programme.
Saravanan said the training is part of the capacity development programme for forest staff. It is one of the components of BNHS project to preserve the Central Asian Flyway, with special focus on site-specific activity and developing bird sensitivity maps for setting up wind energy and species action plans supported by Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change.
BNHS deputy director Sathiyaselvam said in 2018, the ministry had launched India’s National Action Plan for conservation of migratory species and their habitats along the Central Asian Flyway. Under the action plan, 48 important migratory water bird sites and 31 important migratory land bird locations across 17 states have been identified for conservation.
District forest officer I.K.V. Raju and IBCN state coordinator Mruthyunjaya Rao were present at the programme.
