Himanshu Kaushik | TNN | Updated: Mar 20, 2017, 06.29 AM
IST
AHMEDABAD : As the world
celebrates 'World Sparrow
Day' to create awareness of the decreasing number of house sparrows
especially in urban areas, non-government organizations have joined hands to
estimate a count of house sparrows in Gujarat.
The Nature Club, Surat, in coordination with the Bird Conservation Society, will be collecting data of the sightings of the house sparrow in the respective areas for a week beginning from Monday World Sparrow Day. Apart from collecting data from the people through social media app, hundreds of volunteers across the state will also report sightings of house sparrows in urban and rural area.
Snehal Patel of the Nature Club, Surat, said, "We decided to have a count when I realized that sparrows were decreasing fast in urban areas while there was still sizeable population in rural areas."
=Patel said the count will pave way for formulating policies to save sparrows. "Since the sparrow was not a scheduled bird it was not a priority of the government, and now the NGOs are joining hands to save the birds from extinction."
"Volunteers and members of the Bird Conservation Society will be conducting the count. Apart from the rough count, we would also mark areas with high populations of sparrows," Patel added.
The Nature Club, Surat, in coordination with the Bird Conservation Society, will be collecting data of the sightings of the house sparrow in the respective areas for a week beginning from Monday World Sparrow Day. Apart from collecting data from the people through social media app, hundreds of volunteers across the state will also report sightings of house sparrows in urban and rural area.
Snehal Patel of the Nature Club, Surat, said, "We decided to have a count when I realized that sparrows were decreasing fast in urban areas while there was still sizeable population in rural areas."
=Patel said the count will pave way for formulating policies to save sparrows. "Since the sparrow was not a scheduled bird it was not a priority of the government, and now the NGOs are joining hands to save the birds from extinction."
"Volunteers and members of the Bird Conservation Society will be conducting the count. Apart from the rough count, we would also mark areas with high populations of sparrows," Patel added.
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