Summer is well and truly here and Its already touching 45 degrees Celsius in most North Indian cities... Its going to be equally harsh to the animals around us. Kindly do your tiny bit by keeping a bowl of fresh water out side your balcony or garden...place some pebbles/stones in the pot for the insects to perch on and sip water (even flies and insects feel thirsty), else most of them drown as they try sipping water from the edges of the bowl!
- Put bowls filled with cold water in your verandahs, neighbourhood parks for the squirrels, birds and other small insects and animals to feed on. Remember to place some pebbles inside the bowl for the insects and the butterflies to sit on and drink water else they will drown in the big bowl.
- Put a bowl of grains for the birds to feed on.
Keeping Dog population under check: It is as easy as ABC! (Image Courtesy: PeTA India)
- Coordinate with your nearest animal hospital to get your neighbourhood street dogs, especially females sterilized. Get all of them vaccinated against Rabies.
- Segregate your kitchen leftovers-food, vegetable peels, dough, fruit peels and seeds in a separate basket in your kitchen and feed them daily to the cows in your neighbourhood. Do not place food leftovers in plastic bags as cows often ingest polythene bags containing food, which chokes their stomachs and they die painfully in due course of time. For more, click here
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- Say no to the Polythene bag for they are non-biodegradable i.e. they can’t be broken down in the soil by microorganisms/by nature into organic/harmless recyclable components as a result the polybag that you may use today will stay on this planet forever!
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- It will choke drains, degrade soils and prevent grass or trees from growing therein. If burnt, they release dioxin, a cancer causing gas. Polybags also make their way into oceans and seas where they are ingested by marine animals like turtles mistaking them to be food/jellyfishes, they are also ingested by cows and other animals that forage on our bin-waste. So, indirectly we may end up taking many lives by using the polybags! Think over it.
- Take cloth bags along with you for shopping for vegetables or the market. Buy a few baskets to collect vegetables from your street vegetable vendor and bring them home in it rather than asking him to give you each vegetable in a separate polybag.
- Please minimize the use of paper. Avoid printing out e-mails unless it’s necessary.
- Give even the tiniest bit of paper that you use to the raddiwaala/kabaadiwaala. Even your bus tickets & newspaper pamphlets! Don’t let anything go waste.
- Remember the 4Rs: Refuse. Reduce. Recycle. Reuse.
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- Use CFLs instead of incandescent bulbs. They may be a bit expensive but they save on your electricity bills and give out as much brightness as a bulb.
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great effort
Thanks!
Great ideas!! thanks. i always keep a pot i buy locally from the potter, filled with water. at first the birds do not come but eventually, they do. I also put outside any fruit/veggie peels, bread crumbs, rice and roti. my birds are happy. i am strictly against th use of plastics. having lived abroad for 14 years, i have never used plastic in all these years. its nice to know that now even in india, there is this wave spreading message of good deeds and poepl are wilingly following it. well done to all the good samaritans. i wish people like us multiply each day so we can correct the wrongs!!!
nice
Thanks…. i am spreading this to my all friends group as well neighbors.
Very good effort by Jaagruti to save environment
We CAN all do our bit.