The airport’s bird problem is an extension of the city’s urban waste mis-management,” says Explore Nepal’s Bharat Basnet, who has been spearheading environmental activism in Kathmandu starting with diesel tempos. By coinci-dence, two of the bird-hits last week involved Lauda Air, the Austrian charter airline Basnet is the representative for. “Kathmandu is like an open garbage disposal site that is sure to attract the birds,” he tells journalists on a conducted bird-watching tour of the airport this week, showing the danger posed by birds of prey soaring above the runway just as the airport’s traffic peak was getting underway. But ironically, while the airport’s efforts to scare away the kites seemed to be working somewhat, it was the dogs and monkeys that started creating havoc
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