Thousands of small falcons stop in north-east India every autumn to feast on termite swarms before flying across the Arabian Sea to Africa, which ties the survival of a migration spanning two continents to the villages and forests where they refuel.
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Villages in north-eastern India are spending six days on the football pitch to persuade young people that the pangolin, one of the most heavily trafficked mammals on earth, is worth protecting.
Migratory freshwater fish have declined by 81 per cent worldwide since the 1970s, and a commentary from India’s Himalayan headwaters argues that dams and village rules there will decide whether the survivors still have a river to travel.
Northeast India is one of the world’s great biodiversity frontiers. The change in how it has been documented arrived from an unexpected direction.
The most trafficked mammal on earth just got a new line of defence — and it came not from a court order or a government circular, but from a tribal council in the hills of Nagaland.