Rajasthan’s Desert Communities Are Saving Godawan, the Great Indian Bustard From the Edge of Extinction — Here’s How

Rajasthan’s Desert Communities Are Saving Godawan, the Great Indian Bustard From the Edge of Extinction — Here’s How

This article is in partnership with Diageo India Rounds of mithai make their way through an excited gathering in Jaisalmer’s Salkha village; the air is thick with celebration, the kind that usually follows the arrival of a newborn. Well, there has been a birth in the village, not a baby, but a creature the residents cherish just as much. It is the Godawan, the Great Indian Bustard.  “The bird is like one of our own; an egg hatching and a chick b…