How lockdown Benefited animals explain in 100-150 words approx.
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It took 10 days into India’s lockdown for the wildlife to reclaim public spaces again. In Uttarakhand, three Sambar deer were spotted walking on the streets, while a nilgai was found strolling in Noida. An elephant was captured in Uttarakhand’s Dehradun, a Small Indian civet was seen in Kerala’s Kozhikode, Olive Ridley Turtles came ashore a beach in Odisha, a bison passed through a marketplace in Karnataka, peacocks danced on the streets in Mumbai, and a leopard reached close to an Air Force base near Patna in Bihar.
As soon as humans emptied the streets, animals took over. And not just in India. From the US to France, Italy to Japan, Poland to England, animals have truly come out of the wild. It is a lesson in human-wildlife conflict that tells us how we have occupied their spaces — and how animals reclaim them the first chance they get. For instance, the abandoned city of Pripyat in Northern Ukraine, the site of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. More than 30 years after the nuclear disaster, the place is now inhabited by more than 200 bird species and other animals, including in the exclusion zone that humans had created after the explosion. Perhaps it’s the nature’s way to bring balance in biodiversity and give back to other species what we have forcibly taken from them.
The animals being spotted on the Indian streets are not running around aggressively, damaging public property or causing harm to anyone — traits that humans have been quick to point out to justify the need to demarcate these spaces and term the wild animals as ‘intruders’.
But with us deciding to stay at home due to the threat of coronavirus, the peaceful reclamation of public spaces by animals shows who the real intruders are. While embracing an aggressive, ‘development-driven’ lifestyle, we have altered the natural surroundings, keeping our needs and desires as the reference points. So we like animals as food or when they are kept in a zoo but press the panic button as soon as some monkeys land on our rooftops or a rhino shows up at some human settlement.
But India isn’t the only country under lockdown. And that’s why animals world over are rejoicing the newfound freedom and extra space to move around. Several videos of wild animals strolling around the city streets have surfaced on social media. Wild turkeys took their spot at a school playground in California, US; a coyote was spotted on the streets of San Francisco; deer were seen in a town in Poland; wild pigs reached the streets of Paris, France; and wild boars travelled to the roads of Barcelona, Spain.
The message is clear: animals are loving the quiet and a world free of human presence.
Explanation:
Unlike in the case of humans, the COVID-19 lockdown seems to have had a positive impact on animals and birds. Limited human interference and reduced pollution levels in the district have helped them reclaim their space in the ecosystem to a certain extent, say environmentalists.
Many bird species which migrate from other parts of the country – known as partial migratory birds – have now extended their stay at the Therthangal and Melaselvanoor-Keelaselvanoor bird sanctuaries.Usually, species like open bill stork, spot-billed pelican, painted stork, grey heron, spoonbill and ibis depart from here by March. However, this year, they have extended their stay, thanks to the lockdown.
A good northeast monsoon and comfortable storage in waterbodies across the district had led to an increase in the nesting of birds in these two sanctuaries during the last season.
Forest department officials released fingerlings into waterbodies last year. The tanks and feeder channels were desilted to ensure that there was good water storage.Reduced human movement has resulted in less disturbance to the birds, prompting them to stay here longer.
Also, human-induced pollution has come down during this [lockdown] period.In the absence of grand marriages and other functions, noise pollution is minimal. This has also benefited the birds.
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