{"id":54020,"date":"2023-04-03T14:00:42","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T05:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/apr\/03\/how-the-nest-man-of-india-is-saving-sparrows-rakesh-khatri"},"modified":"2023-04-03T14:00:42","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T05:00:42","slug":"we-cant-take-their-homes-how-the-nest-man-of-india-is-saving-sparrows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54020","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We can\u2019t take their homes\u2019: how the \u2018Nest Man of India\u2019 is saving sparrows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the birds\u2019 habitats dwindle, Rakesh Khatri is on a mission to build nests and  teach others how to do the same<\/p>\n<p>At the optimistically named Happy School, in a neighbourhood of Old Delhi, a gaggle of entranced children watch intently as they are shown how to weave together materials to make a sparrow\u2019s nest.<\/p>\n<p>Rakesh Khatri demonstrates how to use jute, coconut fibre, cotton, threads and a skeletal wooden frame to ensure the nest is durable. The children are then guided through building their own.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/apr\/03\/how-the-nest-man-of-india-is-saving-sparrows-rakesh-khatri\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the birds\u2019 habitats dwindle, Rakesh Khatri is on a mission to build nests and  teach others how to do the sameAt the optimistically named Happy School, in a neighbourhood of Old Delhi, a gaggle of entranced children watch intently as they are shown &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3672,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[337,456,353,65,59,62,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-conservation","category-delhi","category-environment","category-global-development","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3672"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54021,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54020\/revisions\/54021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}