Dear David, I am Zeenal Vajrinkar, a wildlife biologist working in India. My organization The Corbett Foundation in collaboration with Sanctuary Nature Foundation and Conservation India has launched campaign asking for signatures for a petition to ask the Indian ministry of Power to underground the power lines which will be crisscrossing the Great Indian Bustard's prime habitat. The Great Indian Bustard is found only in India and is endemic to two states with the numbers decreasing every year due to various anthropological threats. Only 150 numbers remaining in the wild, this petition calls for support in order to save them from extinction.
It will be appreciated and a great contribution towards conserving this species which once was going to be the National Bird of India. Kindly share this on your mailing list so that we can get the Ministry to put the power lines underground and consider this as a serious issue. Thank you so much. P.S: The link is in the message below. Regards, Zeenal Vajrinkar ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: YETI <meet.y...@gmail.com> Date: Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 7:44 PM Subject: [meetyeti] Fwd: Save the Great Indian Bustard (GIB) from Extinction! | Conservation India To: meetyeti <meety...@freelists.org> Might be of interest. For YETI Debabrata Phukon ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: ~ramki <frogmo...@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018, 12:31 pm Subject: Save the Great Indian Bustard (GIB) from Extinction! | Conservation India To: Dear conservation friend- Conservation India just launched a campaign for the critically endangered Great Indian Bustard in partnership with The Corbett Foundation and Sanctuary Nature Foundation to address the power lines issue affecting the bird's already depleted population and habitat. We seek your help to add your signature to a petition urging India’s Ministry of Power to underground the power lines crisscrossing GIB’s prime habitats. Please share this campaign widely in your network. We have already crossed 5200 signatures in a few days -- let's make this a 100x louder till the powers that be hear us and take action! Please do share widely in your networks. Click on the link below to add your signature: http://www.conservationindia.org/campaigns/gib2018 Apologies for the cross posting. Warmly, Ramki Sreenivasan Conservation India -- Zeenal Vajrinkar. Assistant Program Officer, The Corbett Foundation. www.corbettfoundation.org
