As regular CFZ-watchers will know, for some time Corinna has been doing a column for Animals & Men and a regular segment on On The Track... particularly about out-of-place birds and rare vagrants. There seem to be more and more bird stories from all over the world hitting the news these days so, to make room for them all - and to give them all equal and worthy coverage - she has set up this new blog to cover all things feathery and Fortean.

Wednesday 14 November 2012

Posters to deter slingshot killing of birds released


By Sumita Sarkar, TNN | Nov 13, 2012, 02.40 AM IST

NASHIK: The Nature Conservation Society of Nashik (NCSN) and the forest department jointly released posters, flexes and pamphlets on Monday— the birth anniversary of noted ornithologist Dr Salim Ali— to stop use of slings to kill birds in tribal areas. 

The posters and flexes will be put up at schools, village temples and other public places in the villages of Harsul where the use of slings to hunt birds is rampant. The NCSN and the west division of the forest department are carrying this out and 4,000 posters will be made and put up in Harsul.

The posters have photos and names of birds and an appeal to save the forest and the birds. "We will start putting up the posters within a week. We also need to do this for Peth, Surgana, Igatpuriand other tribal areas where slings are used to hunt birds," said Bishwaroop Raha, NSCN president.

"We have been conducting awareness campaigns in Harsul and now the use of slings have reduced by around 70%," he said.

He said that birds are important for the ecosystem since they eat insects, mosquitoes, worms etc and save crops from harmful pests. ""They can therefore protect us from mosquito-related diseases like dengue, malaria, etc," he said.

He said birds like peacocks, yellow-legged green pigeon - the state bird, shikra, jungle babbler, red-whiskered bulbul, drongo, black-headed oriole yellow-fronted pied woodpecker, scarlet minvet and others were seen in Harsul.

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