Nagaland village erects monolith for conserving migratory falcons

Three years after a massive awareness campaign put an end to indiscriminate killing of thousands of Amur falcons that roosted at Pangti and other adjoining villages in Nagaland, which also fetched the village several laurels, the village council and state forest department have erected a typical Naga traditional rock monolith declaring it as the ?falcon capital of the world.?
The six-foot rock monolith which has inscriptions and images of several awards marking the success story of conservation also puts on record, in brief, the entire story of how people of this Naga village had converted themselves from cruel hunters to hardcore conservationists. Pangti in Wokha district is about 90 kms east of Kohima, the state capital.
?It was indeed a historic occasion when the monolith was unveiled in the presence of village elders, Church and community leaders, with the entire village taking pride that it had become globally known as the conservation effort attracted worldwide attention,? M Lokeswara Rao, principal chief conservator of forest, Nagaland said from Kohima.
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