Every year, in addition to birds and other animals, even people receive severe injuries after coming in contact with kite flying threads that are laced with glass and metal manja.
The Forest department officials urged festival revellers to avoid using synthetic thread coated with glass manja that poses serious threat to the safety of animals, humans.
The Animal Warriors Conservation Society (AWCS), which has been campaigning against the use of nylon manja for the last few years, had rescued over 320 birds that were trapped by the manja across Telangana in 2022.
Hyderabad: A 22-year-old youngster from Hyderabad, Ayaan, who suffered a deep cut in the neck from kite manja and was profusely bleeding, successfully underwent a life-saving surgery at Apollo Hospitals, Hyderguda. During admission at the hospital’s emergency room, Ayaan was profusely bleeding from neck. Though in a precarious condition, early intervention of the cardiovascular surgical […]
Hyderabad: A painted stork, which was in the city along with other migratory birds is suspected to have become a victim of the dangerous manja used to fly kites. The bird was found with a deep cut on one of its wings by local people at Mallikarjunanagar in the Amberpet police station limits on Tuesday […]
On seeing the bird in a pathetic condition, unable to flap its wings, Home Guard Ratnakar Reddy, a Blue Colts personnel who was on the rounds with his colleague, Syed Pasha, rushed to its rescue.
Hyderabad: The Forest Department authorities on Monday urged general public to report instances of birds getting injured after they get entangled in synthetic Manja during kite flying. Back in 2017, the State government had imposed a complete ban on procurement, stocking, sale and use of nylon-thread commonly called ‘Chinese Dor’ or other synthetic non-biodegradable thread […]