Can I save my green spot?

Can we imagine listening to birds chirping in an apartment in the middle of Bangalore 500 mt from the one of the arterial roads of Bangalore.

I must be blessed to be waking up in the morning and listening to bird chirping. Thanks to the trees around our apartment who provide shelters to playful squirrels; chattering parakeets; watchful eagles; woodpeckers; myna's; crows of course and bee’s who have put up large bee hives and are as busy as they can be depositing the honey collected by the troops. I am sure there will a much larger ecosystem of ants and insects, but this is what I get to watch and enjoy from my 6^th floor.  

Over last 5 years they have become family especially on a lazy Sunday when I have my warm cup of tea and see this ecosystem come alive or on a tired evening when I reach back home early and sit on the stairs to watch the eagles gliding on the sky whereas all the other birds are giving their last shout out before they go quiet.

Today as I sipped my tea in the evening, a friend called to say that all her plants in the garden have died and all birds/insects/ butterflies had suddenly disappeared overnight. On inquiring further, she was told that the entire neighborhood was sprayed with special chemicals to kill the dengue mosquitoes.

Is this a collateral damage which we can avoid or one day we will wipe out the entire flora and fauna in the name of saving the most powerful animal in the planet – The Home Sapiens. Those who have read the book can relate to what I am saying and those who haven’t can see this to start with.