Punjab

Though it is a shadow of its former expanse, this 800-acre mosaic of marshes, ponds, and swamps hosts around 20,000 migratory birds each winter. It is also the last home of the sarus crane and common crane in Punjab

How colonial forces, the Partition, and ambitions of nation-building led to the making of a huge wetland, which is now a stopover for thousands of migratory birds

Forty five gharials brought from a captive breeding centre in Madhya Pradesh have been rehabilitated into the Beas river