The world wetland day just passed yesterday. Silently. As variety of migratory birds fly back home being unnoticed at the end of winters. It seems that we are loosing somehow real and genuine concern for our natural resources and their immense traditional conversational values. Somehow it is being felt, in general, that apathy for wildlife is increasing in the society day by day and an unprecedented antagonistic approach has slowly and slowly crept in the mindset of the people affected with the forests and their inhabitants.
Everyday wetlands are dying or being killed. Most of the remainings are in pathetic conditions. They are forced to be killed; reasons are known to everyone. Atleast the concern for them was alive but that too has started diminishing.
What to do now?
I would mention Mohmaad Ahsan Sahib's post on Face Book specially written for wetland day, which very truely colours this entire picture.
teri jhiilaiN hon ya mere pokhar / pareshaaN sab ke sab daur e haazir meiN Photo: Suresh Chaudhary (Katerniaghat)-2006 Winters.
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As long as we keep on getting water and air , we would not understand the importance of these resources. Mother nature need to give us humans a “shock” to understand the importance of nature. I would like give the example of a lake near Lucknow at Raghunath Ka Purwa. In my association with this lake I noticed a total of 30 species of Birds including migratory birds. Then all of a sudden the lake was drained by the Gram Pradhan , my running to the govt. departments brought zero result and today the large lake has been reduced to a pond. Another reason, I feel, for the killing of the wetland is our conservation machinery is too “Tiger centric” and then importance for conservation decreases with the size of the species involved , hence birds are way down in the pyramid of conservation.
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