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        Discussion Area 討論區 >> Conservation 自然保育 >>  Threaten to Mumbai Flamingoes
        
(Message started by: HKBWS Project on Aug 10^th, 2005, 2:16pm)

Title: Threaten to Mumbai Flamingoes
Post by HKBWS Project on Aug 10^th, 2005, 2:16pm

Up to 20,000 flamingoes, including 15,000 Lesser Flamingoes (>10% of the Asian population) spend the winter (Nov-May) feeding in Sewri Bay, Mumbai. It is arguably the most impressive bird spectacle within the limits of a major city anywhere in the world.

The state government has approved a plan to build a road bridge smack through the middle of the bay, beginning early next year. I'm writing on behalf of a small group of concerned birders who are campaigning for the bay to be designated a protected reserve and for the bridge to be re-aligned to the south by 1.5km.

Our website describes in much more detail the issues:
http://www.mumbaiflamingobay.com

This is going to be a very difficult campaign to win - we really need your help in many ways:
- please sign the petition - click on the link on the scrollbar near the top of the website
- please pass it on to others who would be interested to sign
- please send me back your comments/suggestions on the website, and any ideas you have as to what we could do
- does anyone know of successful campaigns re bridges across estuaries, or unsuccessful ones (we can perhaps draw parallels)
- this is a fantastic site, so please if you visit let us know your impressions. We'd like to get it on the international birding map
- anything else - we're new to this - we need your help!

Thanks very much,

Tim Woodward