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"An article recently published in the popular press has suggested that there may be a link between the increase in numbers of mobile phone masts and the reduction in local sparrow populations. The number of sparrows in Britain has effectively halved from 24 million approximately thirty years ago to a present day figure of 14 million, a decrease of almost 50%."

(Ken Banks, report to the Vodafone Group Foundation, December 2002)

Exactly six years ago a research paper on lowly house sparrows launched my mobile career. kiwanja's last PC World article of 2008 reflects on the link between mobile phone masts and the decline of bird and bee populations in parts of the world