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Nature’s Layers Unravelled – Encounters with birds, beasts, and relatives

Day: 2 May 2011

Osama is dead, but will the cranes fly again?

Bijoy VenugopalMay 2, 2011May 3, 2012

Now that Osama bin Laden is dead, will America allow Afghanistan to lick its wounds and restore its natural heritage?  In India, the wintering Siberian Crane has been missing in action for nearly a decade Afghanistan has always suffered for its place on the map. For millennia, before traders discovered…

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