The birds are starving

What you need to know:

  • We are losing earth. It is not a secret that the environmental quality has been degrading for years. Yet, even with international campaigns, some people believe climate change is a myth.

So while some try to turn a deaf ear on the fact that our environmental quality is degrading by the hour, the truth remains that it is getting worse at an even higher rate than what we think.

I was chatting with a European friend about the fate of birds in some European countries , and he was telling me that they are currently starving.

With all the strict rules about deforestation and preservation of green belts, more and more land is given to housing and agricultural. And while it sounds great to focus on agriculture, the usage of pesticides against aggressive insects is yielding very negative results.

These chemicals end the life of millions of insects that feed on plants, and while this may help the plants, it’s the birds who survive on insects that suffer afterwards, the food chain is interrupted, and with no food on the menu, starvation is eminent.

Our friend mentioned one example that while driving between European cities, he had to stop often at petrol stations to clean his windshield from hundreds of squashed insects, today, he drives hundreds of kilometres without cleaning the windshield.

Many homes in Luxembourg have now put special bird feeding trays in their terraces or garden to provide at least some grains for the birds who can’t find enough to feed their newly born chicks.

The current meltdown of the glaciers is also a warning, ringing alarm bells that urgent measures should be taken to remedy the situation and prevent further damage. Mount Kenya is one of the summits that has lost quite a lot of its glacier, I particularly like this mountain, for it brings back some interesting memories.

While on a safari in Kenya, we visited a hotel situated a few thousand feet above sea level near mount Kenya, we couldn’t see the glaciers from there, but it was a heavenly stay with a fresh breath of the mountain and its surroundings.

At night the room had a fire place that the staff lit for us, and in the morning the ashes were still red when they brought us a warm cup of Kenyan tea with local milk, I can’t describe how beautiful all of this was. The question is: would the next generations also experience these thrilling and outstanding feelings?