Various factors pose a threat to migratory birds in Ooty Lake

While the Ooty Lake remains a jewel in the crown of the Nilgiris, unregulated tourism, pollution and fishing nets pose a threat to the huge array of migrating birds to the high-altitude lake. In a rec

While the Ooty Lake remains a jewel in the crown of the Nilgiris, unregulated tourism, pollution and fishing nets pose a threat to the huge array of migrating birds to the high-altitude lake.

In a recent paper, researchers and wildlife biologists, N. Moinudheen, Samson Arockianathan and M.S. Sarath Kumar, studied the “Occurrence of migrating water birds and risks of Ooty Lake in Nilgiris, Western Ghats, India.”