10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

It’s also endangered, with populations in India and Cambodia numbering barely around the 1,000 mark. National Geographic highlights the amazing story of how a group of villagers banded together to educate their neighbors and protect the Stork, a scavenger also called Hargilla (Sanskrit for “bone swallower”).

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Cambodia India 2016 Groups 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2013

If you are a migratory bird in Europe and western Asia, this is your sweet spot. This grim scenario is a fact of life for millions of migrating songbirds, raptors, and other birds each year. Volunteers with the Committee Against Bird Slaughter sneak into a grove where a farmer has just placed lime sticks to snag unwary birds.

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Cambodia Slaughter Slaughtered Cyprus 142

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 24, 2014

I dreamed of birding the Sundarbans delta – roughly the size of Connecticut or Cyprus – ever since my very dear friends Tim and Hanna Balke told me a story of their visit to these swamps where the Ganges, Brahmaputra, and Mehgna rivers converge in the Bengal basin. They are doing it bare-handed without any protective gear.’

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Bangladesh Dolphins Cambodia Cooking 181