On the occasion of World Sparrows Day, Help Earth organisation in association with GMDA installed Bird Boxes at Shraddhanjali Kanan, Guwahati.
World Sparrow Day is celebrated on 20th of March to raise awareness regarding conservation of sparrows. Sparrows are an integral part of urban ecosystem and render a wide variety of ecosystem services. But, due to rapid urbanization and deforestation, sparrows are fast losing their homes that Guwahati once provided them with. While the Assam type houses from the yesteryears provided sparrows with knocks and corners, these are not present in our present day mega concrete structure.
The initiative of providing nesting boxes for the sparrows was inaugurated by Dr M Angamuthu, CEO of GMDA.
After the inauguration, Angamuthu praised Help Earth for the initiatives to make people aware of the conservation of sparrow and other birds in the city life.