📰 One of the world's most active volcanoes Hawaii's Kilauea is erupting again.

KILAUEA VOLCANO 🌋

📍Hawaii Island (US)

• Active shield volcano
• It is part of the Hawaii Volcanoes
National Park
• Has a large, Caldera at its summit & two
active rift zones

📰 A recent study warns of a growing threat to non-human primates like lion-tailed macaques due to increasing human wildlife interaction.

LION-TAILED MACAQUE 🐒

📍 Endemic to W Ghats -
• Karnataka , Kerala , TN

• Diurnal ☀️ ☀️ (active in day time)
• Arboreal 🌲 - relying on dense rainforest
canopies for food & safety.
• Omnivorous - 🍏🥭🦋🐛🦗

• Have cheek pouches to store food
& eat it later

• Shy - avoid humans when possible 🙈

• Use some 17 different vocal calls to
communicate
• Males define the boundaries of their
home ranges by calls.

Conservation Status
IUCN: Endangered
CITES: Appendix I
WPA 1972: Schedule I

#Species

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📰 Proposed bridge on Odisha’s Chilika lake faces opposition over environmental concerns

CHILIKA LAKE

📍 ODISHA

• 🐬 Irrawaddy dolphins ✓
• At the mouth of the Daya River

• Asia’s largest & world’s second-largest
brackish water lagoon
• listed as a tentative UNESCO World
Heritage site.
• first Indian wetland of international
importance under the Ramsar
Convention
• largest wintering ground for migratory
birds on the Indian sub-continent.

• The lake has numerous islands.

Irrawaddy Dolphins 🐬🐬
Satapada island
Chilika

Nalabana Island - Bird sanctuary
Chilika

Kalijai Temple 🙏
Kalijai island
Chilika

The ant's tireless march is nature's reminder: persistence paves the path to greatness.

Baba Zorawar Singh (9) and Baba Fateh Singh(6), the two youngest sons of Guru Gobind Singh, were indeed martyred on this day in 1705. They were brutally executed by the Mughal governor of Sirhind, Wazir Khan, on the orders of Aurangzeb.
The reason behind their execution was their refusal to convert to Islam

Let us honor the young heroes who chose faith over fear. Wishing you a meaningful Veer Bal Diwas!🙏🙏

"If your friend is Duryodhan, get off from his chariot & run": Kumar Vishwas
If you know you know 😁

"I do not care about the sentence of death. It means nothing at all. I do not care about dying or anything. I do not worry about it at all. I am dying for a purpose.”

“What greater honour could be bestowed upon me, than death for the sake of my motherland?”

Remembering Sardar Udham Singh, a symbol of indomitable courage and resistance against the British Raj, on his birth anniversary today.

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