Birds: Canaries in the coal mine

Illuminem

October 15, 2024

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A passionate concern for the well-being of #migrating #birds over the last few months, in America, lends me some hope. All this happening in the thick of drought, forest fires, floods, hurricanes and a missing #climatebreakdown discourse in the time of election.

The last of humming birds have flown past, too. An occasional pigeon, resident raven and the sea-gull is all that is generally left behind. Stories from city after city, for instance, urged that post sunset tall buildings put-off their lights to ensure safe passage of the fliers.

Would the concerns of birders have rubbed on to a wider lot? Will they in turn begin addressing the brutal destruction of #biodiversity? Perhaps!?

Over half the world’s total GDP – is moderately or highly dependent on #nature and its services and, as a result, exposed to risks from nature.

What if the migrant #pollinators were never to return ‘home’?