Dwindling Great Indian bustard

Subject: Environment

Context: The government informed Rajyasabha that there were no great Indian bustard in Kutch bustard sanctuary in Gujarat on January 1 this year

Concept:

The great Indian bustard are the largest among the four busted species occur in India the other three being Queens bustard, lesser florican and Bengal florican
They prefer grasslands spend most of the time on ground occasionally flying from one part of their habitat to another they feed on insects lizards grass seeds
The great Indian bustard are considered as parameters of healthy grassland ecosystem
The conference of parties to the UN convention on migratory species of wild animals held in gandhinagar the centre said that The great Indian bustard population has fallen to just 150 including 128 in Rajasthan, 10 in kutch and a few in Maharashtra Karnataka and Andhra Pakistan is to believe to host a few great Indian bustard
Are categorised as critically endangered by IUCN

Kutch national park

The wildlife institute of India has been highlighting the thread from overhead power transmission lines found in Rajasthan
It was notified in 1992 it is spread over to km2
it’s a sensitive zone is only 220 square kilometre covers most of the present a core region of great Indian bustard habited
The following the creation of the great Indian bustard population grows from 30 to 1999 245 in 2007 but with the installation of windmills and power lines their population began to decline

Conservation measures

The court has found a three member committee and bastard specialist group of iucn to help our companies comply the order
The great Indian species recovery programme under the wildlife institute of India and Rajasthan Forest department have jointly setup conservation breeding centres, where great Indian bustard x harvested from the wild are incubated artificially and hatched raised in a controlled environment to create an insurance against the threat of extinction and to release the third generation of these capital birds