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India's first bullet train is taking 3 acres from a flamingo sanctuary -Sanjana Bhalerao

-The Indian Express

As the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet-train project gets clearance to run through the Thane creek, environmentalists and birders aren’t too happy.

The Flamingo yoga pose (the forward stretch of the torso while balancing on one leg) might have given you sore muscles, but tear away from the pain and you can enjoy watching the yoga pose’s inspiration flocking on Mumbai’s wetlands and creeks in their signature pose, feeding and mating. The pink beauties, that perch proudly on one limb while dozing, start arriving in the city from September from Kutch (Gujarat) and Rajasthan and stay on till May. They fly to mudflats and creeks, wherever they can find their staple diet — algae.

As the Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed train corridor got wildlife clearance on February 5 from a committee chaired by Union environment minister Harsh Vardhan, to divert 3.27 hectares of land from the Thane Creek Flamingo Sanctuary, it has created a ripple of fear among environmentalists and birders.

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