The authorities of Indian state Gujarat demand the from the local power company to isolate or remove all ground high-voltage power lines that pass in the areas of breeding flamingos, after the mass death of birds from electric shock, according to a Friday newspaper site Times of India.

According to media reports, about 400 flamingos have died in the last 10 days in Gujarat, where these regal birds arrive to winter in East Asia and Siberia, because of electric shock - in the dark they do not notice the high-voltage wires.Only in one area of ​​Kachchh, a swampy coastal lowlands on which flamingos winter, according to authorities in recent days killed 140 birds. Local residents believe that in fact this number is much higher. The problem of bird deaths in the electrical wiring has increased dramatically in recent years, when the coastal Gujarat were built several new high-voltage lines, the newspaper said.

Department of Environmental Protection of the State demanded that all work on the isolation of high-voltage lines in the nesting grounds of flamingos have been completed until autumn next year - that is, until the new season of wintering flamingos, the newspaper notes.

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Two brown bear, found by animal welfare advocates in the summer in a garage of Saint-Petersburg have been moved to farm in the Moscow region, said on Wednesday the St. Petersburg administration.

The bears have been watched since August, when a video was published on the internet, which shows as the animals scratching a iron door of the garage. Media wrote that animals were living in the garage for a half years and owner earned money by making photos with animals.

Animal welfare advocates freed the bears and sent them to the animal shelter in the Leningrad region.

Shimla town, located in the foothills of the Himalayas, is suffering from an invasion of monkeys, reported Friday news agency IANS. 

Monkeys get into the house, taking everything that is in the fridge, stealing food, ruining gardens and even attack people on the street and bite them, writes the media. 

"Six or seven years ago, the monkeys had been catched here and transported to the forest, but now, after their population have grown in the woods, they came back," - said the agency representative of the Department of Wildlife Gulati. 

Residents of some districts of Shimla and its suburbs were forced to set up bars on windows and doors to protect own properties.