Driving through a city SHOULD be inconvenient if you're driving at the same time as everyone else.
Space is limited, and motor vehicles take up a ton of space. Over time they keep getting bigger. Autobesity is a burden on everyone.
Today began as a classic “let me sleep for 5 mins more” kinda day and that showed in the slow start for the #TekdiTrail as well. But with the sun came the numbers — participants and birds and how 😃
So tomorrow we will do this again, with young birders in tow 😊
Come along, ya?
Even after 3 years, the first trail of the #TekdiTrails season still brings the heebie-jeebies. Hosted 40+ participants today and that has lifted the bar for the entire season ahead. Will be doing more of this, that bit more often. Bonus sighting of #Agni🔥 — my guardian #Shikra
If your mother is ill, will you take her to a hospital or a beauty parlor?
Not a single paisa of the 5000cr ##Pune RFD is going towards cleaning or actually rejuvenating Mula river. "Beautifying" a green space means removing a rich riparian ecology & replacing it with concrete🙄
In the times of climate change, water scarcity, extreme weather events, deadly pollution and urban traffic snarls, it would be foolish not to have a citizens' environment manifesto for our elected representatives.
These are the basic demands from us at @VTBKS_Pune
1. Delete the 3 destructive projects planned on @VetalTekdi from Pune’s DP -
Balbharti road, HCMTR and the 2 tunnels
2. Notify Vetal and other tekdis in Pune as Natural Heritage Sites and No Development Zones
3. Focus on strengthening public transport by improving PMPML, completing Metro network and last mile connectivity
4. Keep rivers clean and free flowing by building and repairing STPs under the JICA funded project. Scrap the destructive #RFD project
Thanks @Aditi_Shekar and @shrikaleLokmat for publishing our environment manifesto!
Woo hoo! Well began is well done! ☺️
We had the most amazing two days to start off #TedkiTrails for this season! Sighting the Common Cuckoo yesterday and getting to experience the amazeballs bioacoustics equipment by @Sakhasiddha were the highlights. 30+ happy faces to moot!!
📢 Final Call!!
Last few slots left for the #TekdiTrail happening this Sunday.
Join us to explore a natural heritage in the midst of the city through the lens of birdwatching.
Open and free for all. To register send a whatsapp message to +91-742-007-1818
#SaveVetalTekdi ✊🟡