185 butterflies in one landscape: Manas counts its wings, and the list keeps growing

For three days at Kokilabari in Assam, about a hundred researchers, naturalists and butterfly lovers from India and abroad walked the Manas landscape and wrote down what flew past. The tally at the 9th North East Butterfly Meet: more than 185 species, including the Witch, the Elusive Prince, and the Assam Cornelian — a notable new record for the Bodoland region. Delegates came from as far as Czechia, the Netherlands, Bhutan and Tanzania. A count like this is more than a list: it is a baseline, the evidence future conservation in Manas will stand on.

SDG 15 · Life on land — Mechanism: community action