India’s 99th Ramsar Site: A Lake in Aligarh, a Flyway Across Asia, and a Race Against the Concrete
The Geese that flew eleven thousand kilometres to find this lake Every winter, bar-headed geese make one of the most extraordinary journeys in the animal kingdom. It is a non-stop, high-altitude crossing of the Himalayas from their breeding grounds in Central Asia to their wintering sites in the Indian subcontinent. They fly at altitudes that…