‘Selfie with seagulls’ trend has animal activists worried
As if feeding of human snacks to seagulls was not enough, animal rights activists are now worried about people luring birds with food and then even catching them for photographs.
Honorary Wildlife Warden (Mumbai city) Sunish Kunju who also heads NGO, Plants Animals Welfare Society (PAWS) wrote a letter to Mangrove Cell as well as Thane Forest department and Colaba police station after he witnessed a person catching a seagull and giving it to a tourist to get photographs clicked.
As per Kunju, the incident occurred last Friday around 7 am when he along with members of PAWS were carrying out awareness amongst people on not feeding seagulls human snacks at Gateway of India. “While we were bust setting up boards and talking to those who were feeding Sev and other snacks to the birds we spotted a man luring the gulls with some food and once the gull came to it, he immediately grabbed and caught it. Next he even gave it to a tourist to get images clicked with the gull,” he said adding that on spotting this he rushed towards the men shouting to release the birds and seeing him the man who had first caught the bird ran …read more
