AHMEDABAD: Ahmedabad airport has undertaken a large-scale wildlife administration operation to scale back the chance of chicken and animal strikes across the airfield, 5 months after London-bound AI-171 crashed after take-off on June 12, killing all 241 individuals on board.In affiliation with the forest division, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Worldwide Airport has begun relocating a number of species of birds and mammals present in and across the premises to areas not less than 50–100 km away from the town.Officers stated a significant translocation drive involving 1,000 giant fruit bats is presently underway. The bats, which roost in giant numbers close to Kotarpur, near the airport alongside Sabarmati riverbank, are being captured and launched in Polo Forest, a protected habitat about 150 km away.“Large fruit bats grew to become a specific concern,” stated a supply. “Throughout night-time inspections, blood stains have been typically discovered on the runway or close to plane, however there can be no feathers, hinting at bat strikes. Following these findings and based mostly on suggestions from the Airports Authority of India (AAI), the choice to translocate sure species was taken throughout a collection of joint assessment conferences,” added the supply.Different species being relocated embody the red-wattled lapwing, yellow-wattled lapwing, black kite, Eurasian thick-knee, and blackheaded ibis. Species generally discovered round SVPIA — such because the rock pigeon, cattle egret, home crow, Indian curler, and customary mynah — proceed to be monitored as a part of ongoing wildlife hazard administration, an official stated.