Remove power lines to save bustards: SC

The population of Great Indian Bustard, a tall bird with a wingspan of over two metres, declined from an estimated 1,260 in 1969 to around 150 in 2018. Lesser Florican, the smallest bird in the bustard family also known as ‘Likh’ or ‘Kharmore’, followed the same pattern with its numbers declining from 3,530 in 1999 to less than 700 in 2018, PIL petitioner and wildlife expert M K Ranjitsinh said.

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