The 'Arunachal Pradesh Airgun Surrender Campaign,' according to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his Mann ki Baat on Sunday, is a one-of-a-kind campaign. "My dear countrymen," PM Modi stated in his Mann ki Baat, "the people of Arunachal Pradesh have been running a unique campaign for a year and have termed it Arunachal Pradesh Airgun Surrender Campaign."

"People are voluntarily relinquishing their airguns in this campaign – Do you know why? So that indiscriminate bird killing in Arunachal Pradesh may be halted," Prime Minister Modi stated. "Friends, Arunachal Pradesh is home to around 500 different bird species. These are several unique indigenous species found nowhere else on the world."

However, the PM lamented that the number of birds in the woodlands has been rapidly dropping. PM Modi anticipated that this airgun surrender campaign would help to remedy the problem.
People all throughout the state have embraced it with open arms in the last several months, from the hills to the plains, from one village to the next, he added. "The people of Arunachal have given over 1600 airguns freely." PM Modi said, "I praise and thank the people of Arunachal Pradesh for this."

Ashwini Kumar Choubey, Union Minister of State for Forest, Environment, and Climate Change, appealed to the people of Arunachal Pradesh not to shoot animals and birds in September 2021. He stated that an air gun surrender campaign will be started across the country, and that retired forest workers, members from social organisations, and others would be engaged.

Choubey thanked Arunachal's Forest and Environment Minister Mama Natung on the Air Gun Surrender Campaign, which he described as a great move to safeguard animals and birds from poaching and for their protection. He stated that it is yielding extremely great results and that it would be implemented across the country, with states being asked to participate.

In September, the Union minister spoke at a ceremony in Itanagar when several individuals from Arunachal Pradesh surrendered their air weapons in front of him.

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