Tuesday, May 24, 2016

V - Research 4 - Examining Existing Solutions





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//Govt law/protection
Click here to read about The Prevention of Cruelty Animals Act which was implemented by GOI in 1960
Click here to read about Wildlife Protection Act which was implemented by GOI in 1972
//Awareness
Click here to read about Bird Race
Click here to read about India Nature Watch, a non-commercial bird photography sharing database
Click here to read about India Bird Watching Organisation
]

Monday, May 23, 2016

Sunday, May 22, 2016

III - Research 2 - Predictions and Future Scenarios






Click here to read an interview with a bird photographer
extra reads:
here to read a passionate blog post of a backyard birder Mary S. Van Deusen,
And here to read about thoughts on birds and birding by Gary Budden.

II - Research 1 - Observations and Current Scenarios



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Click here to know more about the threatened species in India.

And about the Migratory birds, 
Click here to read an article about climate change and its impact on migratory birds by Sharada Balasubramanian.

Wednesday, April 13, 2016

I - Problem initiation and Brainstorming

Initial Problem Statement: Bird populations in India is dwindling at alarming rate.


I initiated the problem statement on 10April, Sunday which was the day I went for a birding session with my friends at ARAI hills, Kothrud. I went there after about 30-35 weeks span which was way too much of a gap (engaged with my foundation work backlog, I guess) As we were up on our favourite spot on the hill, I was amazed with the kind of change that happened on that spot over the period of time. The grass was burnt up, barren, the heat was intense and hardly any birds were spotted other than the usual raptors. The water level in the quarry of the hill was too less as compared to the last year's summers. It was all shocking. On returning back, I also came around with an injured bird on the way.


 The bird was a green bee-eater which was flapping its wings on the ground trying to make it with one wing as its other wing was injured. We treated it with some water on that spot and then handed over to the bird rescue. On getting back home, I was anyway preoccupied with this thought about the design process course so I started with a brainstorming session about birdlife conservation and it got connected somehow.






Since that day, I have been working on this and what I am trying to do is not something highfalutin but to stick to the core problem and encouraging wildest ideas.

Thank you for reading.

The next post would be my research on the birdlife conservation which would get posted by 9:45 PM on 18 April.