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

JULY 22, 2024

However, this offers no protection against superstition. . “You live your whole life just to travel to the place you?re re gonna die” (Craig Finn, “Blankets”). The Greater Coucal spends most of its life feeling superior to the Lesser Coucal. Traditional wisdom sometimes is massively overrated.

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Vietnam Fowl Birds Iran 191

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 24, 2014

They are working to clean up oil without protection and the children are falling sick. They are doing it bare-handed without any protective gear.’ The forest also acts as a buffer to protect the coastline against cyclones and rising sea tides. Without any protective gear, this man collects heated oil.

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Bangladesh Dolphins Cambodia Cooking 184

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2013

The piece describes why this corner of the world often has an attitude toward indiscriminate hunting that ranges from laissez-faire to Wild West, and also the toll that the ensuing slaughter takes on populations of birds that are protected in their northern European summer homes.

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Cambodia Slaughter Slaughtered Cyprus 143