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.