Conservation of Wildlife, birding habitat and Mother Nature

This is my first article and I am glad that I got opportunity to begin with beautiful topic such as nature.

 Everyone love nature and enjoy the same during the holidays to come out of stress, routine life and work pressure but we easily forget the same once holiday is over. Now the time has come to conserve our mother nature so as our next generation do not suffer.

Let us understand what conservation is and why it has become so important for our future?

Conservation typically means protecting wildlife, species and their habitat; we need to go one step further to explore unattended areas having habitat of wildlife, birds or unique plants, which will help us to reap the rewards in the future as well as saving these area from unwanted exploitation from industries.

These days biggest challenge is saving natural resources from industries in name of development, we are taking away lands from habitats and destroying nature while calling it development. The important thing is that we need to understand how to make balance between development and conservation since both are equally important but due to commercial thought process we avoid rather ignore importance of conservation and destroying it continuously, impact of which is visible and it is high time that we realize and put strong efforts towards conserving and developing fruitful locations.

Before I end the article I would like to touch upon area which I feel need focus, conservation is not only saving tigers or land with tiger density but also preserving habitat of birds which are vulnerable due to fast depleting in numbers. Today’s topic is on “Indian Skimmers”

Important details about Indian Skimmers:

A lovely bird is found in Southern Asia mainly in rivers or estuaries, places like Odisha and Chambal. The unique behavior of this bird is the way it catch it’s pray, it has short upper mandible and the longer lower mandible that is ploughed along the surface of water as the bird flies over the water to pick aquatic prey. It  is a treat to watch  and capture in camera when it skim through water for catching fish, but very soon it will become history due to lack of conservation of its habitat. As per the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) the status is vulnerable since 1994, the count is on a rapid decline as a result of widespread degradation and disturbance of lowland rivers and lakes. Rapid decline since 1994 shows that there has been no enough efforts towards conservation of rivers and lakes, they are highly destroyed by way of chemical waste, illegal sand mining, cutting of river area for commercial purpose etc. this caused issue of survival and growth of unique bird. The core issue is that we are moving towards development at unrecoverable cost of Mother Nature, the time has come to realize the urgent need for conservation else we will see such unique species only in our memories.

Author:
BT Wild Art - Life is Safari. Enjoy it.
bhavesh thakkar photography 

Special Thanks to

Timir Mazumder (Nature Love's Club)

Saurbh Thakekar (Mumbai Traveler)

Vishnu Loltikar 

Jogi Prajapati (Mumbai Traveler)

Amol Gawli

Padmini Desai

Subhash Tarkar

Ramulu