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Make Makar Sankranti festival SAFE for the birds
- Target: To the Gujarat Government to pass a law that stops the use of kite strings, or manjas that are deliberately sharp and strong originally made with string, glue and ground glass but increasingly made of sharp and almost unbreakable nylon used in kite battle
- Sponsored by: World Wildlife Fund - India
The kite flying activity includes kite battles, particularly between male kite flyers, the objective being to cut your opponent kite out of the sky. To aid in the fight, kite strings, or manjas, are deliberately sharp and strong originally made with string, glue and ground glass but increasingly made of sharp and almost unbreakable nylon.
The dark side of the manja is that it cuts things other than kite strings fingers and other body parts of kite flyers and spectators, and legs, wings and bodies of birds that are unlucky enough to fly into the slender threads. Hundreds of birds die each year from lacerations or amputations caused by manjas. Concern for the hapless birds is growing and, in many places, vets stand by to provide first aid to injured birds, while kite flyers are encouraged to stick to open areas where there are few trees and therefore fewer birds.
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