Next Life?

Photographer: Erika Bird and Robin Searle
From: In search of water - Bharatpur.

Next Life?

In 2002, the last two Siberian cranes of the central flock failed to return to India. Their winter home, Keoladeo National Park, reeled under a drought and there was no water to house the birds. They were not reported from anywhere else in the country. Two more winters passed, and the birds still did not show up. It is now suspected that they are extinct. (info from Wildlife Protection Society of India)