April 18, 2025 2:36 pm
Spread across 30 acres, the DPS Flamingo Lake serves as a critical resting and feeding ground for flamingos that migrate from Thane Creek Flamingo Sanctuary during high tide.
March 01, 2025 4:54 pm
The initiative is undertaken in partnership with Hasten Regeneration and guided by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation; aims to rehabilitate key feeding sites of flamingos and remove plastic waste alongside Thane creek.
September 04, 2024 7:21 pm
The township along the Thane creek is visited by thousands of migratory flamingos every year and houses a flamingo sanctuary.
May 23, 2024 6:40 pm
Some activists have pointed out the high-voltage power lines inside the Thane Creek sanctuary and Ramsar site as a possible cause.
May 02, 2024 10:21 pm
According to experts, the death of the flamingos can be attributed to a scientific phenomenon called 'light pollution', which partially impairs the vision of the birds due to their fragile eyes.
June 18, 2023 2:58 pm
Africa Lupion, curator of the Fuente de Piedra natural space, told the Cadena Ser radio station in February that the rain level was at its lowest since 1995
May 12, 2022 11:56 am
Between December 2021 and March 2022, the Thane Creek Flamingo Sanctuary (TCFS) witnessed 54,000 greater flamingos. In pre-pandamic 2019, 25,000 greater flamingos were recorded at TCFS.
February 14, 2022 8:39 am
The team was among the 15 that conducted population estimation in Gosabara, Porbandar Bird Sanctuary, Chhaya Rann, Kuchhadi-Javar, Medha creek and Amipur and Barda Sagar dams on Saturday and Sunday.
December 26, 2021 8:58 am
The study was scheduled to begin in 2020 but due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the permission needed from the Union government's Department of Telecommunication for using the tracking devices was delayed.
November 05, 2021 7:21 am
The 5.6-km-long temporary access bridge had been constructed to facilitate the movement of machinery and men for work on the harbour link.
June 12, 2022 8:02 pm
Flamingos arriving at the backwaters has continued to rouse the curiosity of bird enthusiasts, for they are usually spotted in the Kutch region of Gujarat.