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Imagine you left home and a sniper took your life on your way back home, leaving your children stranded and hungry.
I saw this bird on my way back to the office just this evening. I believe it bled to death from a catapult wound. I don’t know its name in English but I do know if it does not have black ‘beads’ around its neck, then it is a female. This one has no ‘beads’. So, it probably was taking supper home to its young ones when a sniper’s stone hit it somewhere.
How human babies feel when their mothers are suddenly taken from them is also how those little birds would feel overnight without the motherly warmth in their nest.
Cruelty to harmless animals is unpardonable. Let’s change.
Our natural environment is restless and is getting more and more scared of us every minute in Africa. Maybe we should review this idiom before they call us idiots: “Using one stone to kill two birds.” The idiom simply has been telling us, from the classroom to the streets, that stones are meant for birds. The roaming birds and rodents have happy homes and dependent babies, too, in the bush. And their young ones can suffer the effects of broken homes, too, if we disrupt them. Let’s change that idiom. Let the environment have peace.
By Edward Adeti, Journalist, Cartoonist, Author and a Passionate Environmentalist
