Multiple Facebook posts have been shared with a misleading claim that new mobile phone networks have led to a drop in bird populations. Experts told AFP there is no conclusive link between the rollout of new mobile networks and the decline.
COLOMBO When Uditha Hettige started out doing field excursions in 1990, in search of Sri Lanka’s rich bird life, he would visit Bodhinagala Forest Reserve in the country’s west each week. Overnighting at a nearby school, he recalls just how common it was to hear the call of species like the Sri Lanka frogmouth […]