Two young men from the city will receive awards for conserving and improving the understanding of wildlife from the Sanctuary Nature Foundation on 8 dec night.
Hailing from the western suburbs, both Shashank Dalvi (34) and Nikit Surve (25) grew up exploring the wilderness of the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP). While both went on to become wildlife biologists, Dalvi was captivated by the diversity of birds in the country and Surve followed the trail of SGNP's urban leopards.
While collecting data on the elevational distribution of birds in Himalayas, Shashank Dalvi was the first to spot a bird new to science. He was part of the team that described the bird in 2016.
Acknowledging the legacy of the venerable 'Birdman of India' Dr Salim Ali, Dalvi named it Zoothera salimalii. Now commonly known as the Himalayan Forest Thrush, the bird is only the fourth new avifauna species to be described from India since independence.
In 2012, Dalvi was a member of the team that discovered and documented the mass massacre of Amur Falcons in Nagaland. "About 12000-14000 birds were killed per day.
The most difficult thing I have done in my life is filming the massacre of these birds," he said. His documentation of the killings led to one of the most successful conservation movements in the country led by local conservationist Bano Haralu. "Since 2013, not a single Amur Falcon has been killed in that landscape," he said.
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