Animal lovers and environmentalists with placards, protested today against the excessive trimming of trees on Rishra station platform, rendering hundreds of birds homeless and many dead.
In March 2024, I had the opportunity to represent the Government of Odisha at the International Experience sharing conclave on BB-PPDR (Broad Band – Public Protection and Disaster Relief Network) at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi.
The decline of these avian inhabitants finds its roots in a complex web of interconnected factors, chief among them being the loss and alteration of their habitats.
In a bid to ensure that birds, squirrels, butterflies and bees get adequate access to drinking water amidst heat wave conditions, the Noapara Mahila Kalyan Samity in Birbhum has taken up a unique initiative to put up earthen pots filled with water on trees.
The FIR was registered at the Thrissur East police station for cognisable offences under Sections 429 and 289 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860, for maiming the birds and negligent conduct with respect to an animal.
Arvind Singh, Kanpur Zoo Assistant Director, told IANS that the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) has set up a 'Virtual Centre' at the Kanpur Zoo which provides information about the birds, turtles, dolphins and fishes living along the banks or in the Ganges.
The team is hanging artificial nests for the birds who need the shelters during monsoon.
The report was released in Gandhinagar on sidelines of the 13th Conference of Parties to the Convention on Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS COP 13)
The Homa bird, of Vedic times, lives and breeds in the air, lays eggs in the air, and, before the eggs reach the earth, they hatch and the baby bird flies upward to join its mother. Persian, Turkish and Sufi poets praise them as divine birds, and birds of paradise
In mythology and medieval literature, the language of the birds is considered divine, used by them to communicate with only the initiated.
