Over the past one year, the volunteers have planted about 8000 saplings on the once barren hill. They even took over the nurturing of plants and reported a survival rate of 98 percent!
Manoj Nair, a prominent birdwatcher from Delhi had visited the Basai Najafgarh Wetlands, and there, one photograph of a black-necked stork, which had a plastic ring stuck in his beak, showed the plight that our wild animals and birds live in.
Walking the paths of the Himalayas, in the Ganga and Brahmaputra valley wetlands as well as the Sunderbans and the Western Ghats- is a fascinating cat–one that may not pop up on your top three wildcat lists–the fishing cat.
But whale sharks are far off from the mainstream image of sharks. Firstly, they feed on plankton--copepods, krill, fish eggs, crab larvae and small squid or fish. Contrary to popular belief, they do not threaten humans.