The Global Wildlife Crisis We Can No Longer Ignore
Wildlife populations are vanishing faster than we think
I grew up watching and loving birds.
Our village had a lovely river teeming with fish. Along its banks roamed numerous beautiful birds from dawn to dusk. Common Sandpiper, Pied Avocet, Heron, Cormorant, Citrine Wagtail, Kingfisher, and many others whose names I never knew.
Watching them explore the mud and catch fish or insects was a delight for me as a kid.
Bird nests were everywhere in the big trees scattered across our village. Many adventurous souls among our friends would regularly climb those trees in search of bird eggs. Oh! Needless to say, I envied them as I wasn’t good at climbing trees.
Around midday when the tides were low, I would often go fishing in the river accompanied by our elders, of course. At dusk, as herons flew in formation across the sky, heading toward some unknown destination — I felt like living in a dream. And when the darkness fell over our village and the moon became the only source of light, we could hear the foxes howling together in the distance.
Those were exciting times, growing up surrounded by nature and wildlife. But — now, everything has changed for the worse.
