Eco Pals

??? Makar Sankranti ???

Festival! Don't we all love them ? Diwali and Holi, both the peoples favourites. Bursting Crackers, throwing colours, playing with water and enjoying the lights and colours. But all of these things can be rewritten as noise pollution, wastage of of water, water pollution, air pollution and chemical danger. For so many years we have had post festival problems, but now we have added a completely innocent and harmless festival like 'Makar Sankranti' to it. Who would have thought that such a festival would leave the free flying birds of the city injured and wounded.

• Non-profit organizations such as PAWS(Plant and Animal Welfare Society) and The Bombay Society for the Prevention of Cruelty  to Animals (BSCPA) caried out rescue missions and treated injured birds at their clinics.
• The BSCPA treated treated close to 70 pigeons injured around their neck, feet and wings.
• The BSCPA treated seven barn owls, seven kites, two koyals and three crows.
• In the suburbs, PAWS reported 12 pigeon, two kite and an owl injuries.

Aren't we disturbing their lifestyles and interfering in their space ?? Is this the way our birds should live ?? the glass coated strings have been the culprit for these helpless birds for so many years 'Makar Sankranti' was a wonderful festival, now can we still say that ???