About 122 of the estimated 150 critically endangered great Indian bustard (GIB) remaining in India today are in Rajasthan, concentrated near the Desert National Park in the western front - A ...

Time is running out for the great Indian bustard. In the wild, fewer than 150 of these critically endangered ostrich-like birds survive, mostly in India’s Rajasthan state. But a captive-breeding ...

Home to the endangered Great Indian bustard, the Great Indian Bustard Sanctuary is the smallest sanctuary in the country spread over just two sq km. Located near Nalia in Kutch district of Gujarat ...

A treacherous combination of habitat degradation, illegal hunting and predation has pushed the Great Indian bustard, one of the world’s heaviest flying birds, to the brink of extinction in ...

New Delhi: Sumit Dookia’s first sighting of the Great Indian Bustard was in Bikaner – he needed to ask the conservationist beside him what the creature that stood before him was. Two decades ...