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In Rajasthan and Gujarat specially-where want most. When the male is killed before our feather co-operatives are-it lives just he mates, it is only a matter of time before outside the villages and is almost tame, an the species dies out. And now, of course, easy mark for traps, bullets and even village the government will recruit more fowlers, bows and arrows.
mor: killers and earn a lot of foreign exPlease don't believe that the bird, just change - which it can use to buy more guns because it is venerated and protected by law, and fighter planes. is not killed even now. The religious centres Is there no limit to the venality of this of Pardwar, Benares, the tourist shops in government? I would like to see any other small and big hotels, at the Red Fort, in country export its national bird-or kill its Agra -- where do you think they get their national bird and export the feathers for gross feathers from ? Professional fowlers who ugly handicrafts like fans, brushes, piano stalk the bird and kill it. The best time is dusters or just arrangements in vases instead in the morning while it dances or at roosting flowers. time, for these beautiful silly birds sleep in
Don't buy peacock feathers. They have the same trees every night and the hunters
not been collected naturally for any shop in wait under the trees. It is killed the way
India. In our religious and mythological you kill a chicken. The head is chopped
sculptures and paintings the presence of off, the crest pulled out and then all the tail
the peacock is meant to shwo an idyllic feathers The hunters keep the meal, the
and sanctified state of being. They will shops get the feathers. Sometimes when
bring you happiness they will destroy evil thy don't want to risk blood on the
represented by snakes which peacocks eat feathers, the btrd is caught in a trap,
in great quantities I know they bring joy, its legs are broken, it lies there screaming for often, careering across the country on a with short gasping shrieks--ka-aan ka-aan nolitical tour I have come across them in the while the hunter plucks its feathers one by one
le monsoon and my heart has always felt ligbier before killing it. The equivalent of pulling
If you believe, as the Sanskrit books believe,
i vor bunches of hair off your head or the nails
alls that a peacock is the glory of God, then help off your fingers.
protect them not only by stopping tourist This bird of ours is not going to last shops from stocking feathers but also by another 10 years for the male is killed usually writing to your state government, the coduring the mating season for that is when he operatives and to the Chief Controller of has his full train-- the longest or last rows of Imports and Exports to ban the export of the his upper tail which are the fcathers the shops feathers.
(Borrowed from the Illustrated Weekly of India with thanks)
