A day after Millennium Post reported that the Delhi government is concerned at the declining population of sparrows and may declare it as the state bird, Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit on Tuesday declared the sparrow the ‘State Bird of Delhi’.
Launching the ‘Rise for the Sparrows’ campaign, India’s largest conservation movement to save sparrows on Tuesday, Dikshit took a decision that is expected to go a long way in raising awareness and attention on the species. Dikshit expressed concern over the lack of attention and recognition the bird has received till now.
As reported in Millennium Post, Dikshit stated that her government will consider to incorporate the ‘Common Bird Monitoring’ in the school curriculum and make schools and other organisations, sparrow and bird friendly. Nature Forever Society will be providing all the help and resources to the Delhi government in this regard.
Officials said that this step will help in the long term collection of data from the NCR region and Delhi being one of the greenest cities in the world has a tremendous scope for urban conservation of which sparrow is the mascot and bio-indicator.
Dikshit also urged Delhi dwellers on 15 August to devote 15 minutes for the birds, as reported by Millennium Post.
Launching the ‘Rise for the Sparrows’ campaign, India’s largest conservation movement to save sparrows on Tuesday, Dikshit took a decision that is expected to go a long way in raising awareness and attention on the species. Dikshit expressed concern over the lack of attention and recognition the bird has received till now.
As reported in Millennium Post, Dikshit stated that her government will consider to incorporate the ‘Common Bird Monitoring’ in the school curriculum and make schools and other organisations, sparrow and bird friendly. Nature Forever Society will be providing all the help and resources to the Delhi government in this regard.
Officials said that this step will help in the long term collection of data from the NCR region and Delhi being one of the greenest cities in the world has a tremendous scope for urban conservation of which sparrow is the mascot and bio-indicator.
Dikshit also urged Delhi dwellers on 15 August to devote 15 minutes for the birds, as reported by Millennium Post.