This time Digital Desk: This lockdown has taken away a lot from us as well as returned. All these incidents are proof that nature took some time to heal her wounds. After about 116 years, this rare orchid blossomed again in India. Whose scientific name is Eulophia obtusa. Ground orchid in common parlance. This rare orchid has recently been spotted in Dudhua Tiger Forest. A few days ago, a team from the forest department went to the forest. That's when this unfamiliar flower caught their attention. This flower is listed in the book as a very endangered species of orchid. Even if this rare tree is found, it is instructed to keep it alive anyway. It is also forbidden to pick these orchids from trees. This orchid was last seen in India in 1902. That record is even on the Q Herbarium sheet in England. Although this orchid was seen in 2006 and 2014 in Bangladesh. But the color of that flower was a little different.
Mudit Gupta and Fazlur Rahman from the World Wide Fund for Nature India found this orchid.
During the lockdown, positive information about one of the world's most studied birds, the hornbill, came from the jungles of North Bengal. The research that has been going on for the last three years about the hornbill inside the Buxa Tiger Project, this time its scope is going to increase. The research will be carried out in collaboration with the State Forest Department across the entire biogeographic landscape of North Bengal. Work will continue on preserving the hornbill.
Nature Mate, a nature-loving organization, has been researching hornbills for the past three years without the knowledge of anyone within the Buxa Tiger Project. They are directly assisted by the Nature Conservation Foundation. Aparajita Dutt, one of the country's hornbill researchers, is also keeping an eye on the matter. The information that came up in the first place is quite encouraging. Five species of hornbills can be seen inside the Buxa Tiger Project. Of the five species that exist, the Great Indian Hornbill, Indian Pied Hornbill, Rufus Naked Hornbill and Rated Hornbill are found in good numbers. Even, though few in number, it has frequently been seen in boxes up to Gray Hornbill.
Darjeeling, Kalimpong, Jalpaiguri, Alipurduar - Hornbills are well established in all the four districts. The exception is Buxa. There are 5 species of philosophy. Not only that, in the last 50 years, census and research has been going on in North Bengal by taking turns of different animals. However, no exclusive research on Hornbill alone, the conservation has not been known to last long.
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