Monthly event-My actions on the occasion of World Migratory Bird Day 2019by Asmita Gaire | 30-10-2019 17:02 |
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      World Migratory Bird Day (WMBD) is an annual awareness-raising campaign highlighting the need for the conservation of migratory birds and their habitats. It has a global outreach and is an effective tool to help raise global awareness of the threats faced by migratory birds, their ecological importance, and the need for international cooperation to conserve them. Every year people around the world take action and organize public events such as bird festivals, education programmes, exhibitions and bird-watching excursions to celebrate WMBD. All these activities can also be undertaken at any time on the year because that countries or regions observing the peak of migrations at different times, but the main days for the international celebrations on the second Saturday in May and in October. For this, I have visited various places on this month of october. Aquatic birds have been the greatest victim of plastic pollution and various clean up campaign has been carried out by sea beaches and other water resources bank. Since I am from a landlocked countries and have no any sea but we have wonderful forest and ecosystem where birds reside. That's why, I decided to visit high hills doing trek by the woods. In the course of time, I have visited 3 beautiful villages at different places of Nepal. They are Devchuli, Ghalegaun and Bhujung village. I have also visited Bandipur, very fascinating place. In these villages, I have thought of planning campaign on "Beat Plastic Pollution" but I was very much astonished to see the environment. Being far from the city and due to limited transportation facility, they weren't making habit of import of junk products from city instead they were cultivating every necessary food items in their own fields and were processing them and preparing their food which was entirely organic. Example: they grow tea plant on their own garden and process it and use to prepare a cup of fresh organic tea. Since we are discussing about world migratory bird day; villagers were rearing birds and stated that they don't feed graded feeds from the city instead they prepare the feed for the birds on their own. That's why, the egg and meat quality of birds is superior than those which are marketed in the towns. Coming back to the topic of beat plastic pollution campaign in the village, in the scenario where plastics use was very rarely seen; people were establishing dustbin at different places for the disposal of wastes that comes from visitors who visited the site. The interesting thing is that the dustbin was also not an ordinary plastic dustbin. It was made from bamboo and it's called "doko" in Nepali and it's very well decorated with beautiful paint. It's also prepared by villagers themselves. This symbolizes how the village people actually are. Away from the village area lies most fascinating place of Nepal visited frequently by tourists and it is called as Bandipur. Like village, the roads and the area were very clean however use of plastics was seen there unlike village. Dustbin were kept by road side at certain distance. The most fascinating thing that I observe there was wooden house of long history. In addition to this, women were preparing very well decorated purse of clothes instead of plastic. It was heard that market had substituted the leather and plastic purse to clothes purse in some area. I have visited those places with my one friend. Her name is Bandana Shrestha, she is also one of the eco warriors. We met students over those places and distributed few Tunza Promotional Goods as an appreciation of those sound and peaceful green environment. They requested to convey immense thanks to Tunza Eco Generation. Plastic trash is found in 90 percent of seabirds. The rate is growing steadily as global production of plastics increases. Plastic found inside birds includes bags, bottle caps, synthetic fibers from clothing, and tiny rice-sized bits. Scientists have been tracking plastic ingestion by seabirds for decades. In many areas of the globe, birds inadvertently feed on plastic floating on the water, mistaking it for food, and many times this ingestion leads to death and even the death of their young. Because plastic pellets are magnets for toxic chemicals like DDT and PCBs, they effectively become poison pills. Approximately 1 million sea birds also die from plastic. A plastic bag can kill numerous animals because they take so long to disintegrate. After I visited my home back, all the plastics which were in my home, I folded them and packed it and provided it back to the shopkeeper so that they can reuse it. This is my second time of returning plastics back to shopkeeper. Nepal¡¯s biodiversity strength is well reflected with high number of bird species. So far, 886 species of birds have been recorded in Nepal, which are about 9% of the total bird species found worldwide. Among them 42 species are globally threatened and 35 globally near threatened. Further, 167 species are nationally threatened. Spiny Babbler Acanthoptila nipalensisis the only endemic bird of Nepal. Nine species; Himalayan Monal, Cheer Pheasant, Satyr Tragopan, Bengal Florican, Lesser Florican, Great Hornbill, Sarus Crane, Black Stork and White Stork are protected birds of Nepal. For landlocked countries like ours, more than plastics pollution in sea or river banks; disturbance in birds habitat had arose the greatest problem in birds extinction. That's why, National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act, 1973 is the major Act that forms the basis for biodiversity protection in Nepal. The Act lists nine species of birds protected by law. Nepal is a paradise for birds with over 886 species of birds. There are lots of bird watching sites; and let's make an effort from individual, local, national and global level so that these status goes on increasing with increase in bird numbers. |
