Two Indian Pond herons were separately perched in the coconut palm tree in our garden at day break. They were together for a while and flew off to their next flight station.
Often Pond herons are near wet lands or near streams or ponds. To see them in ur garden was a surprise and delight!
It is when they are displaced from their natural locations, they seek shelter else where.
The long stretch of paddy field below our garden is now a rubber nursery. The land is dry and devoid of wet undergrowth!
I happened to read yesterday that the 111 th World Day of Migrants and Refugees was remembered on 4th and 5th September. The estimate is that 200 million people migrated in the last 25 years. One in every 35 people now lives away from their homeland. While most migration have been for better prospects and promising future, the forced migration due to civil war, famine, racial discrimination, and natural disaster is on the increase. We witness families separated and children loosing their familiar environment!
The recent loss of lives of about 60,000 people in Gaza out of which one third might be children and women, tells us a sad story. In the 80 the year of the end of Second World War and the formation of UNO, whoever thought that we would have yet another enforced migration due to territorial and racial conflict!
I found the two Pond herons sharing their displacement !
I wonder whether the 149 countries voted for a separate nation of Palestine would now come forward to support Palestinians to rebuild their lives!
I wish that the displaced people from the Gaza region would feel that they are mindfully cared for at this time of their loss, grief and crisis!
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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