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| Male, Nylsvlei, February 2012 (Photo Stan Culley) |
Last year’s
news of the massacre of Amur Falcons in India shocked the world. BirdLife’s
Indian Partner BNHS moved immediately to mobilise a response. The trapping was
stopped, nets destroyed and arrests made, although not before terrible damage
had been done.
This year,
the generous response to our international appeal has enabled BNHS, with the
support of the BirdLife Partnership, to organise a comprehensive programme to
keep the falcons safe around the Doyang reservoir, where they roost during
their stopover. The programme has mainly been implemented by a local NGO,
Nagaland Wildlife and Biodiversity Conservation Trust, working with the
Nagaland Forest Department.
As a result,
not a single Amur Falcon was trapped during the 2013 autumn migration.
Attitudes have changed so much in the space of a single year that the Amur
Falcons are now treated, in the words of Nagaland’s Chief Minister, as
“esteemed guests”.
To read the full Birdlife International post click here.
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