Monkey at Airport, Kathmandu. NP

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"The airport's bird problem is an extension of the city's urban waste mis-management," says Explore Nepal's Bharat Basnet, who has been spearheading environmental activism in Kathmandu starting with diesel tempos. By coinci-dence, two of the bird-hits last week involved Lauda Air, the Austrian charter airline Basnet is the representative for. "Kathmandu is like an open garbage disposal site that is sure to attract the birds," he tells journalists on a conducted bird-watching tour of the airport this week, showing the danger posed by birds of prey soaring above the runway just as the airport's traffic peak was getting underway. But ironically, while the airport's efforts to scare away the kites seemed to be working somewhat, it was the dogs and monkeys that started creating havoc.
Environmentalists blame dumping of garbage on the Bagmati River on the northern side of the runway. It is true that this is sacrilege, and a serious pollution threat for groundwater through leaching, but activists have been going a bit overboard in blaming the river landfill for the bird hazard. All the three bird strikes this month happened at the southern end of the airport, or on the runway itself. Eager to be seen doing something, the government, after a meeting held at the Local Development Ministry on 13 October, banned dumping of food waste and animal carcasses and prohibited animal slaughter at Jorpati, Gothatar and Mulpani Village Development Committees.

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