The large amount of perennially available water allows wild animals and birds to flourish.
The birds flourished and at the last count there were about five thousand of them on the island.
Ecology of large basin is unique; until recently, wild animals and birds flourished, hunted rarely by the agro-pastoralists.
Nesting birds, including those who make their homes in the cavities of trees, flourish immediately and in the first few decades after a fire.
The birds are another tourist draw, but officials are trying to keep the number of visitors to the flamingo areas at a level that allows the birds to flourish.
Other birds also flourish in the area, as do warthogs, baboons and other large mammals.
Crocodilians (which include all modern crocodiles, alligators, and gharials) and birds flourish today.
They are within a wildlife sanctuary deemed a Site of Special Scientific Interest and birds flourish in the warmer water created by the station's outflow.
Tucked between a bustling container shipping port and an abandoned petroleum tank farm, the birds have flourished by feasting on catfish and river carp.
Migratory birds and insects flourish here during the brief Arctic summer.