Just when we think poachers might finally allow migratory birds to return home in peace, we find more illegal mist nets laid out across open fields.

13 Mist Nets Set up to Trap Migratory Birds

On 30 March 2026, our field team reached Eroali in Khargram, Murshidabad, and discovered 13 mist nets set up to trap migratory birds. Overhead, thousands of pipits and larks filled the sky unaware of the danger below. Two had already been caught.

Our team acted immediately. Each net was carefully dismantled. The trapped birds were gently untangled, with the nets cut away to avoid injury, and both were safely released back into the wild.

To prevent reuse and send a clear message, all 13 nets, approximately 8 km long, were destroyed on the spot.

On 28 March, 2026 the team had been lucky not to find a trapped bird but they dismantled around 4km of nets in Goshgram, Murshidabad.

For over 100 days now since December, 2025 that HEAL teams have been on the ground every single day, patrolling poaching hotspots across central West Bengal to protect bogari birds during this critical migratory period.

Even as the season draws to a close, the threat hasn’t stopped. And so we guard the fields to protect the birds.

Your support is what keeps our teams out there—removing nets, saving lives, and standing between these birds and those who hunt them.

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