In the ICSE syllabus for Class 4 students on environment, there is a chapter on sparrows and saving them by creating nests based on Rakesh’s work. Hooked on to their i-Pads and mobile phones, children today are missing the joys of nature, wildlife and birds. In the fast changing urban …
On the eve of World Environment Day, Canada High Commission today organised a workshop with a view to encouraging children to think of ways to save the state bird, house sparrow which is slowly diminishing in numbers. The workshop which the commission jointly oragnised with the ECO Roots, an NGO, …
The birds are seen in fewer places than they were before 2005’. Among all major Indian cities, Chennai and Bangalore have the least number of spots for sparrow sightings, according to a survey conducted recently by the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS). Surprisingly, Mumbai has the largest number of spots. …
Pune: The house sparrow is now the fourth most commonly-sighted bird in India, with the first three being the Rock Pigeon, which has emerged as the most common bird in India, the house crow and the common myna, as per the common-bird monitoring programme conducted by Nashik based non-governmental organization …
Mumbai: The house sparrow, once the most commonly sighted bird in the country, is gradually losing its presence in the urban landscape. According to the Common Bird Monitoring of India (CBMI), a year-old initiative of environment organization Nature Forever Society, the sparrow is now the fourth most common bird in …
New Delhi: Sparrows have become so rare in the capital that it seems not even Delhi’s environment department can identify it correctly. The department’s ad campaign on the occasion of World Sparrow Day on Wednesday carried a picture of the Eurasian tree sparrow, which is neither found in Delhi nor …
Urbanisation, Insecticides Pushing Winged Creatures Towards Extinction Lucknow: Many bird species once sighted commonly across Uttar Pradesh are now vanishing. The reasons could be many and diverse, but technology appears to be the biggest factor behind this threat looming over the feathered friends of man. First mynahs faced the extinction …
Sparrows Indicate Environmental Well-Being, Their Absence Worrying: Experts Bangalore: They may be small but their presence makes a big impact. Sparrows are an indicator of the environmental health of an area, say experts. And their disappearance can be linked to increase in infectious diseases and ecological changes, they warn. These …
The Delhi Government’s initiative to revive the population of the house sparrow is yet to yield results as bigger birds-pigeons and mynahs are creating hindrances. Ornithologists said that the large populace of the bigger birds are elbowing sparrows out of their habitat and leaving them without places to nest and …
Environmental organizations have alleged that state forest department has no blueprint for the conservation of the rich wildlife diversity in south Assam. Two environmental groups, People's Science Society (PSS) and SAFE, have expressed apprehension of poaching of wild animals and birds with the arrival of migratory birds to the region …
Urban noise could be the key cause of the declining sparrow population in the city. A research on urban noise pollution says it is limiting communication between the birds and their chicks to such an extent that adult sparrows are unable to hear their young, impairing the chicks' growth as …
House sparrows among birds to take brunt in decline blamed on changes in land use, coastal management and weather The UK has lost more than 44 million breeding birds in less than half a century, including an average of 50 house sparrows every hour, according to a report. Scientists estimate …
special cover released after Delhi makes house sparrow its ‘state bird’. The campaign to save the humble house sparrow from extinction got another shot in the arm on Monday when India Post released the special cover commemorating the Delhi government’s decision to make the species the city’s ‘state bird’. Designed …
The humble house sparrow has become the State bird of Delhi with the issue of a notification to this effect, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit announced on Friday. Addressing school children at her residence during a function organised to celebrate Wildlife Week, Ms. Dikshit said the idea behind making the house …
New Delhi: The house sparrow is still very much a part of Delhi’slandscape.Its numbers might seem on the decline, but findings of ‘Citizen Sparrow’ — a national survey to understand the population dynamics of house sparrows — paint a brighter picture. In Delhi, there were 627 records from people on …
Sudhir Vasudeva, CMD of the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), on Tuesday launched the ‘Save the House Sparrow’ campaign to mark the 57th ONGC Day at Tel Bhavan here. The campaign, initiated by ONGC in association with Action and Research for Conservation in Himalayas (ARCH), a local NGO, aims …
GOLAGHAT: Sparrows are disappearing from many parts of the country, especially in Assam, where electro-magnetic radiation from communication towers, use of leaded petrol in vehicles and overuse of chemicals and pesticides in agriculture have been cited as primary causes of their disappearance by scientists. The chief scientist of the Regional …
Sparrows are disappearing from many parts of the country, and specially in Assam where electro-magnetic radiation from communication towers, use of leaded petrol in vehicles and overuse of pesticides in agriculture have been cited as some causes by scientists. Chief scientist of the Regional Agriculture Research Centre in Lakhimpur, Prabal …
Rajkot: A nationwide netbased survey on house sparrow has been launched by Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS), Mumbai, from April 1. Bird Conservation Society, Gujarat (BCSG), which is one of the 10 partnering institutions in this two-month long survey, has appealed to the people to contribute their data to this …
Bombay Natural History Society ropes in citizens for online survey In an effort to document the population and distribution of sparrows and compare it with the situation in the past, nature and conservation organisations across the country have joined efforts with the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) to launch an …
A variety of programmes in school and outside are turning the capital’s children into environment-sensitive citizens. Besides getting to know nature first-hand, they are also taking steps to make and keep their surroundings clean. Delhi has become a more environmentally sensitive city than it ever was. And it is the …
