10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2015

India, February 2013. Birds included common species such as Black Drongos , Jungle Babblers and a Hoopoe. These days, the species shares habitats with Tigers, Snow Leopard, Bears, etc. I am camping in the dry-deciduous jungle in eastern Maharashtra, near the geographic heart of India. It is February and evenings are cold.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Late last month, while searching for bears , woodpeckers and spirits of Greece, I deliberately avoided checking any news, especially from my home country. We are facing a plague of poaching that is again decimating the species. But the “illegal international trade” is already there, killing – among other places – in Kruger (S.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2015

Maharashtra, February 2013. There’s a Sloth Bear in tall, dry grass, barely 50 metres from us, but all we can see is a dark, shape-shifting shadow that eventually becomes all but invisible. Conservation endangered species India Mammals tiger' The Telia Lake. Cover photo: Telia, copyright © Nitin Bhardwaj.

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