Authorities in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh are pressed by villagers, and farmers to disband a reservation on the grounds that protected area dedicated to saving the Indian Bustards, have gone all these valuable birds.

Locals living near the Bird Sanctuary Karer, created in 1981, in order to save the extinction of Indian Bustards, protesting in favor of the abolition of the reserve area and land use for agriculture, forest cutting and wanting them to do so in the sense of firewood. Already delicate situation, as ecologists and conservationists who have studied the whole phenomenon, said that such incident will create a dangerous precedent regarding the protection of nature in India, as the remaining reserves in this overcrowded country face similar situations, people around protected areas asking for their suppression and land conversion to agricultural areas.

Reserve near the village locals Dihalia Karer say sanctuary for birds that affect their lives. The irony is that the same locals complain that they were allowed to buy or sell land, to dig mines, to hunt and fish in the reserve, or cut firewood in the forest …

“Our children can not hunt or sell reserve land so that our daughters will not have money to marry. Please do something to abolish the reserve, so that we can organize our lives,” says Jawahar Singh, the speaker of the village.

Environmentalists are urging villagers by Sidereal, saying they are only guilty of Bustards extinction caused by their aggressive activities which have destroyed the environment of the reservation. Indian bustard is a huge bird, the size of Europe Bustards. During nesting, Indian Bustards in need of peace, as well as large areas, undisturbed by human presence. Mechanized farming and grazing, human incursions combined with the habitat, are responsible for the disappearance Bustards. A core of 15 Bustards were brought to Karer in 1981, their number increasing to about 40 copies, then because of human activities, not even a single bustard has not been sighted in the area since 1994. Indian bustard arid steppes still alive only in India and Pakistan, ornithologists estimate that in the year 2008 more than 1,000 living specimens.