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Narcondum Island Radar Installation plan

Don't install the fu@king radar. Enemy will not Bomb India cause we saved Birds. And even if they try Birds will take down any such attempts. :D
Ministry of environment needs to get life. Instead of blocking every project they should look in to ways of minimisation of loss.
Need to get one thing straight here. Country's defence is more fu@king important that any other thing. They should learn the other ways for preservation than blocking projects.

Not to mention a flying bird is real threat to a plane..:lol:
 
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I am pretty confident this will happen- 300 isn't enough for a ignorant politician to get involved over for some vote-banking!
 
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we must investigate first that whether those horn-bills will be rally in danger due to radar or not
 
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Oh god! Just put a bigass pontoon in the sea, tie it to the island and install the radar already. Environment Ministry and Defence Ministry are a couple of f*#*ing puss-ies!
 
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Folks, you seem to get carried away that somehow raising the birds issue is a threat to national security and pointless. I disagree.
Given that this in the only island that these hornbills are found, caution in disturbing its habitat is well deserved.

If this radar can be deployed on the island without causing any damage then perfect. Everyone is happy.
If there are other alternatives say another barren island, a floating pontoon etc, explore them.

Don't just be trigger happy now and few years down the line complain about how ineffective the government was in not exploring alternatives and destroying rare species.
 
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The Hindu : Sci-Tech / Energy & Environment : Ministry bats for endangered island bird
Ministry bats for endangered island bird
Takes side of conservationists fighting for survival of 300-odd Narcondam hornbills
The Environment Ministry has taken the side of conservationists fighting for the survival of 300-odd Narcondam hornbills, threatened by a Coast Guard plan to set up a radar surveillance system on the tiny island in the Andamans where the birds make their home.

On August 31, the Ministry of Environment and Forests issued an order rejecting the proposal, suggesting that the Coast Guard explore other options, “like installation of off-shore structures and several other viable options…which can spare the unique habitat of Narcondam Island from disturbance,” pointing out that “there is no such option available for the hornbill whose survival may get seriously threatened if the establishment of proposed radar is allowed on the Narcondam Island.”

The island in question spans less than seven square kilometres, and its mixed tropical forests are the only place in the world where these colourful birds are found. During the time of egg-laying and chick-rearing, the female birds shed their flight feathers, rendering them as vulnerable as the now-extinct — and similarly flightless — dodo.

Conservationists had raised a red flag after the Coast Guard asked for the diversion of a little more than half-a-hectare of forestland, to set up a static radar sensor unit as part of a chain of similar units all along the coast for remote monitoring.

When the proposal was taken to the National Board for Wildlife last year, member A. Rahmani was asked to carry out a site inspection. His report recommending that the Coast Guard’s proposal be rejected was submitted in June. The final decision has now been announced by the Ministry, much to the delight of conservationists.

“Scientifically and ecologically, rejecting a project on Narcondam is fully and entirely defensible,” says Neha Sinha of the Bombay Natural History Society. “But it is also the romantic notion — of helping an island endemic species with no ‘other place to go’ — that also seems to have triumphed.”

The Coast Guard has now been asked to set up an expert committee to “study and explore other alternatives like aerial, satellite, off-shore, ship-based or land-based surveillance systems at other islands, for ensuring the defence and economic security of the country.”
 
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This shows India's offensive and hegemonic attitude. They want to wipe out a whole species just so that they can get a
radar system in such a ecologically delicate place. China is justified to have a defensive string of pearls to counter India's evil
plans.

Installing Radar in one our own islands does not mean Hegmonic design, You guys should know the term Hegmon, Read about China is SCS issue you will understand hegmon. :bunny:
 
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This shows India's offensive and hegemonic attitude. They want to wipe out a whole species just so that they can get a
radar system in such a ecologically delicate place. China is justified to have a defensive string of pearls to counter India's evil
plans.

We are not installing radar on BD land.
 
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when we retire ins vikrant (old acc) we can use it as a floating body and dock it at that island , then install radar on it :azn:
 
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In my opinion if there is a will,there will be ways to solve the problem without putting danger to our national securities & our birds. At the least there should be some approach to save nature. It is pretty easy to destroy the nature but hard to reinstate it.
And who knows it more than our military forces who face extremely harsh face of nature day in day out. My cousin says it is pretty easy to say things when you are safe in your home but when you get out & face the truth then your wisdom starts to grow.
 
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I think India should consider floating radars, built atop platforms over sea...
Its an endangered species, so we should think bout it.. Also there is an issue of national security...
Am on two minds regarding it...
 
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