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Silent Skies

Seems like a holocaust to me where if we (‘each of us’) humans don’t change quickly to safe and protect birds wherever we can, we will indeed poison ourselves like the high amount of pesticides they are using because they have killed off the birds who would eat the insects in the article below…

It is late afternoon in the Wiang Lo Wildlife Sanctuary in northern Thailand, and a protected forest like this should be alive with birdsong at this time of the day.

But no birds sing.

Around the world, bird populations are falling, in some cases dramatically. Globally, 15 per cent of all bird species are critically endangered, according to Birdlife International and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). In Asia, 59 per cent of water bird species are seeing declining numbers.

Read on:

http://www.stasiareport.com/the-big-story/asia-report/laos/story/the-silence-the-birds-20150104a-study-in-blue-august-skies