By Ratiranjan Mahapatra | Program manager
Uttarayan-Kite flying Festival is celebrated on the 14th and 15t of January every year in India. Every year during Uttarayan (kite flying festival) Jivdaya Charitable Trust’ organizes a huge camp for saving the birds called ‘USBC (Uttarayan Save The Birds Campaign) where thousands of birds come from all over the city Ahmedabad and its 100 km radius, (migrated and local both) severely injured with the glass coated threads (manja), as an effort to save the injured birds from certain death and giving them a survival chance. Even though our official USBC 2020 campaign date was 13th to 16th January 2020, we started receiving birds injured by manja used in kite fighting (Uttarayan) from mid-December.
Received 1397 birds during the campaign;
Birds on 13th Jan20: 136
Birds on 14th Jan20: 379
Birds on 15th Jan20: 571
Birds on 16th Jan20: 311
Total number of injured birds received from 1st Jan 2020 to 20th Jan 2020 is 2847 Birds of 39 species. Sadly, this will continue to go on until end of the month of February.
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