Art show sheds light on importance of birds to Kuwait’s environment

Art show sheds light on importance of birds to Kuwait’s environment

By Faten Omar

KUWAIT: The General Secretariat of the Supreme Council for Planning and Development (GSSCPD) organized on Wednesday an exhibition entitled ‘Feather and Art’ in cooperation with the Kuwaiti Awareness Team of Birds. Mohammad Anber, Vice President of the Kuwaiti Awareness Team of Birds, told Kuwait Times that the exhibition was held to raise awareness of the birds through pictures and paintings, adding “We are participating in the exhibition in cooperation with GSSCPD. Today’s exhibition is diverse and is the first of its kind to combine pictures of painters and photographers.”

He pointed out that his team is the first in the Middle East that combines talking birds’ species and birds of prey. “We are an environmental volunteer team,” he noted. “We aspire to raise a conscious generation to preserve the environment. We aim to create an educated and aware generation of the importance of endemic and migratory birds in environmental balance and work to make Kuwait and the Gulf States capitals for awareness and environmental culture.”

Anber affirmed that the Kuwaiti team is against poaching. “The ecological balance must be preserved. For example, one owl eats between 1,000 to 2,000 mice per year,” he said. “If we killed or hunted owls, the