Where have all the twittering gone?
They couldn’t destroy all the nests so they decided to cut off the trees. But because it would destroy the sight they decided to trim only the inner branches leaving the tree outer silhouette. Now the trees look more of a soup bowl than a normal tree. Only the outer branches surrounding a big void! It is almost sunset now and normally birds of different kinds would be going round and round and when the sun finally goes down I will start enjoying my daily enchanting dose of a mixture of warbles, trills, whistles and rattles even my cat will be enjoying his daily bird watching ritual. But there are no birds no more. The enchanting twittering and wheezing chirping and chirruping singing are gone. And here I am hearing only monotonous cockroaches and badly missing the good old days. After days of desperate attempts to spot birds from all the windows in the house, my cat now sits idly by me staring emptily at the monitor. I get visions of setting up a society for the protections of Egyptian birds and then the visions start turning disturbing when it shows that the only members are me and my cat! I imagine the two of us standing in Talaat harb square, me hanging a “save the birds” banner on my nick and my cat, disguised as a bird, playing dead by my side.
By leaving all the animal welfare issues aside, Apart from the pain we are causing other able-to-feel-creatures by destroying their habitat, and also apart from the pain they caused to the bird mother by forcibly chasing her off her nest and seeing her young being threw away, and by completely ignoring how is all this cruel and inhuman, from a purely conservation view point, it must be noticed that we are killing our wildlife, first dogs and cats, and now birds! I wonder if the plan is to empty the country out of its baladi breeds is to start exporting more prestigious foreign wildlife!
Several things must me mentioned here, in the UK, All birds, their nest and eggs are protected by the Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981, and it is thus an offence to damage or destroy an active nest or prevent parent birds access to their nests. In case of birds such as the barn owl that are listed on Schedule 1 of the Act, it is an offence even to disturb the birds when at or near the nest.
And it continues to the US, Scotland, Portugal, Poland, Norway, Malawi and, No, not Egypt..!
everything descriped above is happening now in "Rehab City", new Cairo


3 Comments:
hey gurl ill join u..so it'll be u, your cat and moi! and 3 IS a crowd =D we'll turn this country upside down for all we got ;)
(btw gr8 1st post)
4/15/2006 3:16 PM
Amazingly amazing! It is so sad where the society is going.
4/16/2006 2:19 AM
الي اعظم مصريه تعرفت عليها ارسل سلامي..
12/01/2015 12:59 PM
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