India's forests, wetlands and wildlife, and the efforts to protect them.
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Chilika in Odisha is Asia's largest brackish-water lagoon and the world's biggest single home of Irrawaddy dolphins. Its recovery is a conservation success.
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Kaziranga in Assam is home to about two-thirds of the world's greater one-horned rhinos, a remarkable conservation success.
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Mawsynram in Meghalaya receives around 11,800 mm of rain a year on average, making it the wettest inhabited place on the planet.
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Launched in 1973, Project Tiger helped India's tiger numbers recover. Today India is home to about 75% of the world's wild tigers.
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The Sundarbans, shared by India and Bangladesh, is the world's largest mangrove forest and home to the swimming Royal Bengal tiger.
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Stretching 1,600 km along India's west coast, the Western Ghats are older than the Himalayas and one of the world's richest biodiversity hotspots.