Mumbai: wetland destruction for airport will harm and kill thousands of birds
https://www.mid-day.com/articles/mumbai ... r/22668303
Illegal bird killing by land owners is reason for harrier decline in UK (they raise birds for hunting and kill the predators that want to eat them - what an irony, isn't it? They figure it's OK for them to kill them for fun but not OK for the natural predator to kill them for food!):
https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/tra ... title_1120
Not bad news. An VERY nice essay on why it's important to teach people about birds (spoiler alert: because when people learn about them, they also learn to understand and love them and people protect what they love).
https://www.birdlife.org/worldwide/news/why-it’s-important-love-birds-more-just-their-beauty