{"id":53837,"date":"2018-12-07T01:06:27","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T19:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=53837"},"modified":"2018-12-07T01:06:27","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T19:36:27","slug":"presence-of-black-necked-cranes-in-the-chug-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2018\/12\/07\/presence-of-black-necked-cranes-in-the-chug-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Presence of black-necked cranes in the Chug valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>Dear Editor,<\/strong><br \/>\nWith due appreciation of Dr. Mize&#8217;s response to my earlier letter regarding the presence of black-necked cranes in the Chug valley, as mentioned in my earlier letter, I would like to submit to Dr. Mize photographic evidence of the presence of the crane on 19th December 2012 (photograph is dated). Hopefully this will predate the &#8216;discovery&#8217; of the crane to &#8216;science&#8217; by a good four years and hence increase the scientific appreciation of Chug valley as winter roosting ground. I would be happy if Dr. Mize could turn this evidence into a scientific publication for the purpose of encouraging environmental conversation in the Chug valley.<br \/>\nMay I also point out that in an article in the Look East Spark magazine I published in April 2015 I wrote that &#8220;Unknown to most conservationists, like nearby Sangthi, Chug valley&#8217;s paddy fields are the winter roosting ground of the endangered black-necked crane&#8221;. Perhaps this statement caught the eye of the conservationists in Arunachal and led to the &#8216;discovery&#8217; of the cranes there.<br \/>\nThe sad thing is, that it appears that just a few years after its discovery, the species may already have gone extinct in the valley.<br \/>\nLastly, to direct local sightings of such a highly iconic bird as the black-necked crane to a possible case of &#8220;mistaken-identity or a vagrancy&#8221; in my eyes continues to display a condescending attitude towards local people&#8217;s knowledge and opinions: unfortunately a caveat that, despite all good intentions, continues to plague conservation efforts around the world.<br \/>\n<strong>Sincerely,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Tim Bodt,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>London, UK<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Editor, With due appreciation of Dr. Mize&#8217;s response to my earlier letter regarding the presence of black-necked cranes in the Chug valley, as mentioned in my earlier letter, I would like to submit to Dr. Mize photographic evidence of the presence of the crane on 19th December 2012 (photograph is dated). Hopefully this will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-53837","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-readers-forum"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}