Many species of birds are struggling to save themselves nowadays because increasing pollution and changing ecological balance is destroying their habitat.
Birds can be saved only when the community will come forward in their favor, it has been proved now so try to involve the people and society if you want to conserve the birds of your locality. It was the gist of the addresses of different speakers in the state level workshop on capacity building and training organized by Indian Bird Conservation Network at Hazaribagh.
Neo Human Foundation of Hazaribagh has organized this workshop with the collaboration of Bombay Natural History Society in which many ornithologists, forest officials and members of IBCN participated. Mahendra Prasad, GM JSFDC, inaugurated the workshop which was the first in Jharkhand organized by IBCN.
The advocacy officer of IBCN Neha Sinha talked about the programmes going on in different corners of the country for conservation of birds and the changes being made time to time in the policies. She said that it is pollution which is harming the habitats of the birds and good results have come when and where the community was taken in confidence.
Sinha said Chambal is the least polluted river of the country but the guests Amur Falcon which comes there from 20000 km away are in danger due to lack of knowledge of the residents of that area. So it is our duty to make them get acquainted with the truth so that killing of innocent birds can be stopped there.
Program manager Dr. Raju Kasambe talked about the role of IBCN in conservation and research works related with birds. He informed that the organization gives both technical and economical support to the researchers. For research work the organization gives a maximum grant of Rs. 75000 to the students.
Karnataka’s State Coordinator of IBCN Dr. S Subramaniyam talked about the causes which are threatening the habitats of the birds. Developmental projects prepared without looking into its effects on the ecology of the area has caused heavily and if in future it will continue there will be no birds on this earth in future, he added.
Chief Guest Mahendra Prasad said that without making the people and community sensitive, it is very hard to conserve the birds. DFO Palamau Tiger Project Dr. Anil Mishra said that the youths will have to take this task otherwise our next generation will not be able to see a variety of birds.
DFO Ajit Kumar Singh, DFO RN Mishra, Bird Watcher from Delhi Dilip Thakur, IBCN’s State Coordinator Satya Prakash, PVC Ranchi University Dr M Raziuddin and others addressed the workshop.