{"id":55803,"date":"2023-06-07T14:00:28","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T05:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/jun\/07\/rare-birds-how-delhi-brothers-avian-ambulance-service-has-taken-wing"},"modified":"2023-06-07T14:00:28","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T05:00:28","slug":"rare-birds-how-delhi-brothers-avian-ambulance-service-has-taken-wing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55803","title":{"rendered":"Rare birds: how Delhi brothers\u2019 avian ambulance service has taken wing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seeing a trapped bird led Amit and Abhishek Jain to dedicate their spare time to rescuing dozens of creatures every day<\/p>\n<p>Low-hanging wires, heavy traffic and people who love flying kites have made Delhi a dangerous place for its wild birds. It prompted two brothers to spend the past five years rescuing the Indian capital\u2019s sick and injured birds in an initiative that has already saved an estimated 50,000 animals.<\/p>\n<p>Amit and Abhishek Jain used their own earnings to adapt a motorbike into their distinctive bird ambulance. Then, as support grew, they set up the <a href=\"https:\/\/jaindirect.org\/jeev-daya-pariwar-delhi?%20%20change_language=en\">Vidyasagar Jeev Daya Parivar Trust<\/a> last year.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/jun\/07\/rare-birds-how-delhi-brothers-avian-ambulance-service-has-taken-wing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seeing a trapped bird led Amit and Abhishek Jain to dedicate their spare time to rescuing dozens of creatures every dayLow-hanging wires, heavy traffic and people who love flying kites have made Delhi a dangerous place for its wild birds. It prompted t&#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":[265,337,353,65,59,62,61,94,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-birds","category-delhi","category-environment","category-global-development","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-wildlife","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55803","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=55803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55804,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55803\/revisions\/55804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}