"At workshops in more than 3,500 schools across India, Khatri has taught children and adults how to create bird nests using materials like twigs, grass, and leaves. His efforts have resulted in more than 100,000 nests being built, with a remarkable success rate of #birds returning to them."

‘We can’t take their homes’: how the ‘Nest Man of #India’ is saving #sparrows | #UrbanConservation
#Cities #Wildlife

| The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/apr/03/how-the-nest-man-of-india-is-saving-sparrows-rakesh-khatri?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1680498255

New post today: Chicago parks were once hallowed ground, starting with the lakefront. That seemed to change once Lollapalooza arrived for good in 2005. We had Taste of Chicago, the Blues Festival, and more in Grant Park, but Lollapalooza was on a much larger scale, taking up the entirety of the space from Randolph Avenue to Roosevelt Road, and requiring expensive repairs to lawns and plantings every year—a situation that continues to this day.
https://www.twibchicago.com/p/the-problems-with-mega-events #chicago #douglasspark #birding #urbanconservation #urbanbirding

"He made us more human, made us connect more to that wild place in ourselves."

When I read this eulogy about #P22 a few days ago, it brought me to tears. It's a privilege to publish Beth Pratt's moving perspective on the life and death of LA's iconic mountain lion in #HighCountryNews today:

https://www.hcn.org/articles/wildlife-the-mountain-lion-that-changed-la

#wildlife #UrbanConservation #MountainLion #biodiversity #RIP #wild #conservation #NationalWildlifeFederation