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The Bengal florican: its conservation in Nepal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

C. Inskipp  and
N. J. Collar
C. Inskipp
Affiliation:
IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre. Both at: 219c Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, CB3 ODL, UK.
N. J. Collar
Affiliation:
International Council for Bird Preservation.
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The Bengal florican is perhaps amongst the most threatened species in the Indian subcontinent. It is virtually extinct throughout its former range due to the loss of grassland habitat, grass burning and, in earlier times, severe hunting pressure. The International Council for Bird Preservation, recognising that too little was known about the bird's present distribution in Nepal to take steps towards its conservation, organised a project to provide the missing information. The 1982 survey described here found that probably no more than 100 Bengal floricans remain in Nepal. The Nepalese Government has already taken one positive step: its planned extensions to one park and two reserves where the florican still breeds should result in substantial increases in areas of the grassland habitat that the birds favour.

Type
Research Article
Information
Oryx , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , January 1984 , pp. 30 - 35
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Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1984

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