Local perceptions of a rare and once resented bird in north-east India are being transformed by an all-female team of campaigners
Greater adjutant storks – ‘hargilla’ in Sanskrit – have an image problem. The large scavenging birds have a reputation as unwelcome neighbours due to their noisy, messy and smelly nesting habits.
With a global adult population of fewer than 1,200 – 75 per cent of which are found in this part of Assam, north-east India – the birds need help to prevent the trees they nest in being felled by landowners.
Purnima Barman, of the…
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