Parveen Shaikh
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20 appearances
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first heard May 2026
last heard 30 May
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It's a win-win for the community staying on the bank of the river because they are getting seasonal employment, as well as just a win-win for the species that they are getting protection from the people on the bank of the river.
It's a very beautiful, popular bird, but we didn't know what exactly is the problem for them by their declining.
So these birds mainly nest directly on the sandbars that emerge in between of rivers during peak summers.
The water which is surrounded on the sandbar is a natural protection to them.
But I realized that rivers have changed and this sandbar starts getting connected to the bank when the water level decreases.
And that led to free ranging docks that access the sandbars and predate on the eggs.
And that was a very sad scenario to see because a very large loss of eggs and chicks were happening.
We were monitoring approximately more than, you know, 10, 15 nests on one island.
There were a couple of days left for the chicks to hatch out.
When we walked on the nesting sandbar to do the daily monitoring, we realized that the birds were very disturbed.
And we saw that a couple of dogs had predated everything, except only the last remaining two eggs.
And we realised that it is possible that if we completely keep the predator outside and not let the livestock come on the sandbars, the birds still have a chance to and the eggs and chicks have a chance to survive.
We experimented with a couple of nesting sites where we appointed the local community members.
We trained them and we told them to protect this nesting colony.
And to our surprise, more than 60% of the chicks successfully fledged from this nesting colony.
It's a win-win for the community staying on the bank of the river because they are getting seasonal employment, as well as just a win-win for the species that they are getting protection from the people on the bank of the river.
Parvin's advice for other conservationists?
Conservation is challenging, but believe it in yourself, believe it in your programme.
And the one thing that we have learned that people need to be part of conservation.
It's very important that the communities around the species need to be part of the conservation programme.
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