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You are listening to Speak up For Nature Series.

This is your narrator B N Kumar.

World Migratory Bird Day greetings to all of you.

On this occasion, we want to focus on a very important issue regarding migratory birds.

We would like to address The President of India, the Prime Minister, the civil aviation minister, the chief minister of Maharashtra through this broadcast.

We also want all the associations and federations of pilots to take this issue seriously.

And of course, my media friends – particularly those covering aviation.

Yes, ladies and gentlemen:

It is about the impending threat to flights at the upcoming Navi Mumbai International Airport.

The threat is not due to the birds, but because we human beings are playing with their age-old destinations, namely the wetlands and mangroves around the airport project.

The wetlands and mangroves in Navi Mumbai are being buried and this has been disturbing the movements of migratory birds.