It was on the 1st of September, 2012 , the first day of my college. It's was a 14km travel from home. Boarded a bus with all the enthusiasm to see how the first day of the college goes. Traveling on the Doddaballapura main road with no complete attention towards one thing during the travel, then something caught my attention, actually the stench did and it was so intense that it would wake up the 'kumbhakarna' too. When i looked at this magnificent beauty it shocked me as to how the stench is emanating from this scenic lake. In 2014 as a part of a social service activity i got a chance to visit and survey the reasons for this devastation. The lachan (i.e. lake) is none other than the Puttenahalli Lake. The lake is a 10-hectare water body near Yelahanka, 14 km north of Bangalore. Biodiversity experts have discovered 49 species of birds breeding here. Among those birds are darters, painted storks, black-crowned night herons, purple herons, pond herons, egrets, Asian openbill storks, Eurasian spoonbills, spot-billed pelicans, little grebes, little cormorants, spot-billed ducks, purple moorhens and common sandpipers. What was the reason for it? The lake has a pleasant view but the presence of High voltage transmission lines are repelling out the indigenous species of birds. The mixing of the effluents into the lake is the reason for the stench and the algae attack. Eight residents from the neighbourhood have started a trust called "Yelahanka Puttenahalli Lake and Bird Conservation Trust" to protect the birds and work towards increasing bio-diversity in the lake with the help of the government. The government and trust are working towards making the lake a bio-diversity spot and to declare the lake to be a bird reserve. Let's hope this helps this ecosystem!
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Susruth
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