PfA Wildlife Rescue and Conservation Centre

In recent years, it has become increasingly evident that bird diversity in India is reducing at an alarming rate. Sparrows that would once sing to the rising sun have now become a rare sight. Media outlets and news sources have pointed to our electronic devices as a major cause for this loss in diversity, particularly the cell phone and other network broadcasting towers. Though it’s easy to point fingers and shift the blame, in this day and age we are admittedly heavily reliant on the very devices and systems that we assert are the source of this problem. So, while we can’t regress to a technologically inferior era and hope for an avian revival, what we can do is better understand exactly what electromagnetic radiation is and how it may be affecting the world around us.  Electromagnetic radiation consists of waves of the electromagnetic field that are present all around us, although invisible to the human eye. They’re used to transmit radio waves and TV or other wireless signals. T...

With the rapid growth of the city, the barrier between human and animal life grows increasingly translucent each day. The world we inhabit warrants co-existence, not in the form of independent existence, but through interdependence and mutual understanding of different life forms. The role of psychology then becomes crucial in building a healthy relationship with our earthly neighbors. Experts around the world are now looking into the psychological relationship between humans and animals that allows for peaceful coexistence, and are also emphasizing the importance of the psychological view in the modern-day world. A simple exploration of how our attitudes impact wildlife in multitudinous ways highlights the importance of changing people’s attitudes towards animals to a more positive light.  Despite being a relatively young science, psychology has made massive strides since its birth as a scientific enterprise in the late 19th century. Numerous schools of thought and theories have b...