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)
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Sunday, November 30, 2008
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November 30 commemorates the day in 1987 that the City of Tsukuba was born from the Village of Sakura and the Towns of Yatabe, Toyosato, and Oho. (The Town of Tsukuba merged with the rest on January 31 of the following year). Since Alien Times was also [...]
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…..
At 1:30 pm on a sultry Saturday July 12th, we gathered in front of the Sakura Gymnasium. The heat was intense and the air itself was like pea soup and seemed to pulsate with life. There were 28 of us in all, nature lovers, who had gathered from near and far to have a look at the cultural, historical and natural [...]
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