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BNHS will open its first regional center near Chilika Lake: Details, Aim, Highlights
BNHS will open its first regional center near Chilika Lake: Details, Aim, Highlights
India’s premier avian research institutes Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS), will start operating to its first regional centre or avifauna observatory on the campus of Wetland Research and Training Centre near Chilika Lake (Asia’s largest brackish water lagoon), Odisha.
The avifauna observatory will carry out research on avian disease by collecting samples and monitor Nalabana Bird Sanctuary. It will be engaged in identifying air route of foreign birds flocking Chilika lake during winter, sample collection, training related to bird census, publishing bird migration atlas books, examining various diseases among the birds and review condition of Nalabana bird sanctuary along with counting birds.
About Bombay Natural History Society (BHNS)
BNHS is one of the largest non-governmental organizations in India engaged in conservation and biodiversity research. It was founded on 15 September 1883 and headquartered at Hornbill House, Mumbai.
BHNS supports many research efforts through grants and publishes Journal of Bombay Natural History Society. Department of Science and Technology has designated as ‘Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation’.
About Chilika Lake
Chilika Lake is the largest coastal lagoon or brackish water lake in India and Asia and second largest lagoon in the world (after The New Caledonian barrier reef in New Caledonia).
Chilika Lake is located at the mouth of Daya River, flowing into the Bay of Bengal.
Chilika Lake is spread over Puri, Khurda, and Ganjam districts of Odisha on the east coast of India, covering an area of over 1,100 km sq. It hosts around one million birds with 97 species being intercontinental migratory in nature during the winter season.
