Thane stray dog with plastic jar stuck to its mouth rescued after 3 hours

A Thane stray dog was rescued on Wednesday nearly three hours after a plastic jar got stuck to its mouth in Maharashtras Thane district an NGO said reported news agency PTIThe Thane stray dog landed in distress in the Dombivli MIDC area prompting locals to seek a former corporators help reported PTIThe excorporator got in touch with NGO Pet Animal Welfare Society whose volunteers arrived at the scene cut open the jar and rescued the dog after about three hours reported PTIPAWS trustee Anuradha Ramaswamy urged citizens not to throw plastic on the streets while Nilesh Bhanage of the NGO said housing societies should keep clay or cement pots filled with water for animals and birds reported PTIMeanwhile more than 30 flamingos were killed after allegedly being hit by an aircraft in Mumbai police said on Tuesday as environmental activists demanded a probe into it by the DGCA and claimed urban planners had ignored warnings about such disasters reported PTIThe birds were hit by the aircraft before it landed here on Monday night a police official saidVarious calls were received from people about the dead birds spotted at some places in Ghatkopar said Pawan Sharma founder of the Resqink Association for Wildlife Welfare RAWW and honorary wildlife warden with the forest departmentThe carcasses were sent for an autopsy and would later be disposed of as per the protocols he said reported PTIThe Wildlife Conflict Mitigation and Management Plan needs to to reviewed and revised by the airport authorities based on proper evaluation of the situation in coordination with the forest department and wildlife experts so that such incidents can be avoided in future RAWW secretary and zoologist Chinmay Joshi said reported PTINatConnect Foundation director B N Kumar in a release said he has sent an email to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation DGCA and sought a highlevel probe to ascertain how the Emirates aircraft hit the birds and whether the pilot could not notice the flock on his radarThe flamingos were apparently on their return from Mumbai to Gujarat and their death is a warning to human beings of the impending disasters Bombay Natural History Society BNHS researcher Mrugank Prabhu said reported PTINearly a lakh flamingos keep flying to the Thane Creek Flamingo Sanctuary which is a Ramsar site NatConnect saidWith inputs from PTI