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BY D N Singh
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Just few days have passed since we celebrated World Sparrow Day (March 20) .
But for whom are we doing this tokenism? For some whom we failed to conserve, for the ones whom we made homeless and shockingly for the little avian species whose meat we devoured on the dining tables!
Winter in March and perhaps worse to come with footsteps of a deadly summer already audible..
Anyway this can be said that climate change or whatever but the environment is at a crossroad which has started to consume so many precious elements including species.
Not to walk back to decades but what is painfully missing from the live pools is the chirping angels, the Sparrows.
The little ones have, as if, vanished in the gloom of a polluted environment where the toxics rule.
House sparrows
The lovely birds are among many species that are virtually unseen.
Either they have lost their way to survival or not there anymore.
Just thriving somewhere and somehow.
A sad spectacle! The ones who break the early dawns’ quietness with their lovely twittering are no more audible.
From the thatched houses in villages, in small niches in wells or on any space carved on trees or in the angles on street light poles, they used to nest on.
That is abruptly missing.
What a sight it was when they flap their wings in dusty roads and flap back the dust around, are all on a literal diminish.
Shame!
"They lost their shelters due to human activities such as deforestation, hunting and poaching" said Biswajit Mohanty, environmental activist.
Who used to, with their tiny beaks peck the insects and other hazardous stuff from the crops in the fields have become unthinkable now.