Gurgaon comes together to save endangered stork

On Tuesday afternoon, a five-day-long rescue mission for an endangered stork came to an end near Najafgarh when a team comprising birders, wildlife activists, and officials from Haryana Forest Department managed to rescue the black-necked stork that had its beak caught in a rubber ring. The animal’s plight and the rescue operations had been widely reported by news media over the past week, ever since it was spotted by a birder in Gurgaon’s Basai Wetlands last week. But the rescue mission was largely propagated and fuelled by social media.