The Stork Sisters
Stories from Bharat · 01
The Stork Sisters
How 20,000 mothers in Assam learned to love India's "ugliest" bird.
When nothing else worked, Dr. Purnima Devi Barman did something no conservationist had tried. She hosted a baby shower for the Hargila stork.
What began as one gesture became a movement — over 20,000 Assamese mothers coming together to pull the Greater Adjutant back from the edge of extinction.
A stork nobody wanted, saved by the women everybody overlooked.
The Hargila Army
Articles
The Chakkar
The Stork Sisters
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Reasons to be Cheerful
The 'Stork Sisters' Saving a Species on the Brink
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Rukhmabai Initiatives
The journey of ‘Stork Sister’: Pioneering a community-conservation movement
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National Geographic
Saving the Hargila
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TedX
The Story of Purnima Devi Barman
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology
The Hargila
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