Indian rag pickers forage for recyclables at Guwahati landfill site

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Indian rag-pickers forage for recyclables items at Baragaon landfill site in Guwahati, Assam. Endangered Greater Adjutant Storks patiently await their turn at a landfill near Guwahati, Assam. They await their turn patiently at the garbage table, every time a fresh truckload of garbage enters the landfill people rush to it first, and once they are done with their pickings the storks move in filling their gullets with rotten meat. The greater adjutant (Leptoptilos dubius) is a member of the stork family, Ciconiidae. Its genus includes the lesser adjutant of Asia and the marabou stork of Africa. Once found widely across southern Asia, mainly in India but extending east to Borneo, the greater adjutant is now restricted to a much smaller range with only two small breeding populations; one in In