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Displaced by coastal erosion, people began moving to Bagapatia in the 2010s, but continue to decry the village’s inadequate and dangerous conditions.
Engineer-turned-conservationist Seema Lokhandwala has developed an AI-powered device that listens for elephant vocalisations and plays sounds like tiger roars or buzzing bees to drive herds away from villages near India’s Kaziranga National Park.
The country is lagging far behind on marine conservation targets and even its few existing protected areas are failing, say experts.
Logging has undone many ancient trees, but those protected by temples survive down the centuries.
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