‘A little birdie told me…’ is an idiom that might soon become redundant if the little bird, i.e. the sparrow in the city and even the country is not given its due. Just like that, species of birds and animals that surround us everyday, from dogs to the Great Indian Bustard are being marked red. So what is the youth doing about urban wildlife? Enter The Perch Project — an initiative by two friends Hazel Karkaria and Somesh Kumar who studied at Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology who are using their design skills for a chirpy cause.

Somesh Kumar and Hazel Karkaria