This is a guest post by Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya, republished from Mongabay with permission. Kasema Khatun’s tiny, thatched-roof house lies just a few feet from the swaying elephant grass thickets of Orang National Park, a 78-square-kilometer (30-square-mile) protected area in the northeastern Indian state of Assam. Like the other residents of Rangagora Village, it is […]
From Loathed To Loved: Villagers Rally To Save Greater Adjutant Stork
This is a post written by Diane Toomey republished here with permission from Mongaybay.com . Original source. Greater Adjutants in a nest at the Dadara village nesting colony in Assam, India. Photo by Purnima Barman You know a bird has a PR problem when an ornithologist refers to it as “a prodigy of ugliness.” […]
Tea-Coffee Plantations Changing Habitat of Western Ghat Otters
According to a new research published in mongabay.com’s open access journal Tropical Conservation Society (TCS), the Asian small-clawed otter is widespread in the Western Ghats but can’t keep up with changes brought to the region by humans.