“A village in Tamil Nadu went without electricity for 35 days to safeguard a bird’s nest and its hatchlings”
What FACTLY found
In 2020, the people in Pothakudi village in Tamil Nadu’s Sivaganga district voluntarily shut off the streetlights in their village for 35 days to safeguard the eggs of a female oriental magpie robin that used the village’s electricity board control box as its nest. Only the control switch that powers the 35 streetlights in the village was turned off for the sake of the three eggs nestled in the bird’s nest. The village did not experience a complete power outage during those 35 days to protect...
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 31 August 2023. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 1 September 2023, 1 day later. Its rating was “MISLEADING”.
Where the claim appeared
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