PHNOM PENH--Conservationists in Cambodia have for the first time released two captive-bred Greater Adjutant Stork chicks into the wild as part of an ongoing programme to revive a species under threat ...
In Northeastern India’s Assam, women have joined forces to save the resident greater adjutant stork (Leptoptilos dubius), known locally as the hargila, which was long considered a “dirty, smelly bird” ...
Dadara, India — On a cloudy day in July, in a remote village in northeastern India, Charu Das excitedly imitates the awkward movements of a stork with her hands. In a few months, the greater adjutant ...
Two greater adjutants, a male and a female, walk after being released at Siem Pang Wildlife Sanctuary in Stung Treng Province, Cambodia, October 15, 2025. -- Photo: REUTERS/Roun Ry PHNOM PENH (Bernama ...
Once reviled, the Greater Adjutant stork was nearly extinct, but the conservation efforts of Dr. Purnima Devi Barman and her 'Hargila Army' has turned the bird's fate around. Greater Adjutant storks ...
Go forth: Two Greater Adjutants after being released at Siem Pang Wildlife Sanctuary in Stung Treng province. — Reuters Conservatio­nists in the nation have for the first time released two ...
The voice of 43-year-old Daibaki Saikia, a resident of Dadara village in Assam’s Kamrup district, crackled through this journalist’s phone. She sang a folk song she had penned about the greater ...