Avi has written at great length about the plight of birds who enter the nets that “protect” the lotus farmers’ fields along the shores of Kasumigaura. To read more about this issue, see the following articles.
Bird Sanctuary or Mortuary (May 2007)
Bird Rescue Underway: Six Saved Thousands to go (December 2007)
Save the Birds (December 2007)
Kasumigaura [...]
Those of us involved in trying to have Tsuchiura’s lotus root farmers take down their deadly bird-ensnaring nets have been making efforts to rescue as many birds as possible from slow starvation, until that end is achieved.
We have become, however, metaphorically and quite literally, stuck in the mud. First, there are the technical problems [...]
Something MUST be done about the senseless and cruel slaughter of birds in the nets around Lake Kasumigaura. And because Maurice, a Canadian living in Iwama has gotten involved, the beginnings of a volunteer rescue movement have started to germinate.
Maurice is an experienced environmental activist whose approach to getting things moving is to engage the [...]
Continue reading about Bird Rescue Underway! Six saved, thousands to go…..
In modern Japan, it is common for people to possess an owl of some sort. Not a real-live one, of course, but perhaps a stuffed animal, doll, figurine, painting, or even just a cartoon image of these instantly recognizable, flat faced birds. In fact at the library, I found a whole book dedicated exclusively to the different owl-shaped folk figurines produced in the various regions of [...]
There is a serious animal cruelty problem in Kasumigaura. Birds are being trapped in lotus farmers’ nets and being left to die a slow and painful death. Read more about this issue and what Avi and Maurice are doing about it.
Avi and Maurice have started a group called “Kasumigaura Bird Rescue” to [...]
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