Gujarat

wildlife · forest

Forest department officials rescued a leopard in Junagarh, Gujarat. The forest officials captured the wild animal after administering tranquiliser and took it to an animal centre.

lake · river

Pair of Painted Storks forage in shallow water of Thol lake at Thol Wildlife Sanctuary in the Indian state of Gujarat. The Painted Stork (Mycteria leucocephala) is a large wading bird in the stork family.

industry · river

Man selling colourful balloons shaped with animal forms and cartoon characters on a roadside in Gujarat. Ahmedabad also called as Amdavad is the largest city and former capital of the western Indian state of Gujarat.

forest · village

Viewer discretion advised due to possible graphic content. A five-year-old lion was found dead in an open well in a farm at Dasada village in Bhesan taluka of Junagadh district.

livestock · wildlife

Herd of Blackbuck seen grazing in a grassland at Blackbuck National Park, Gujarat. Blackbuck National Park at Velavadar is situated in the Bhavnagar District of Gujarat state, India.

forest

Forest officials rescued a lion cub who had fallen into a well in Gujarat district, West India. Villagers pulling the cub out of the well by using a rope tied around the feline’s body.

politics

Followers of Alpesh Thakor take out bike and car rally in Gujarat. They shout motivational slogans.

Extensive flooding took place in Gujarat in July 2015, causing much damage to human life and property, agriculture, domestic livestock and wildlife.

monsoon

Incessant rains lashed most parts of Gujarat causing flooding in the areas of north Gujarat, Kutch and south Gujarat region. Several districts have received more than their normal average of the season.

music

The Painted Stork (Mycteria leucocephala) is a large wading bird in the stork family. It is found in the wetlands of the plains of tropical Asia south of the Himalayas in the Indian Subcontinent and extending into Southeast Asia.

wildlife · birds

The Greater Flamingo is the largest of all species. The coloring of them is the main difference for telling them apart. One is very bright red in color and lives along the coast of the West Indies and even into Florida.

industry · desert

The salt workers settle down in the desert for 8 months between October to May and their homes adjacent to the salt pans that they work on.

architecture

desert · festival

The entire area where Rann Utsav take place is illuminated with lights. One can even see wooden boats are lit up with lights on occasion of Rann Utsav.

hills

Cable car ride over Pavagarh Hills in Gujarat. People take the ropeway to reach to Kali temple over the hills. There is a Manikchand Pan Masala advertisement on the cable car.

politics

Former Union Minister and BJP senior political leader talks about the student movement called Navnirman Andalon in Gujarat in 1973-74.

forest

Viewer discretion advised due to possible graphic content. The number of lions that died in the Gir sanctuary and outside the reserved forest area has increased in the past two years.

birds · wildlife

A nice moving tracking shot of a Black-winged Stilt, a pair of Brahminy Ducks or Ruddy Sheldrake and a Median Egret at Nalsarovar Bird Sanctuary in Gujarat.

Street scene of Gujarat. One can see shop selling varieties of clay items and women sale clay idols in streets of Bhavnagar, Gujarat. Bhavnagar is the sixth largest city in the state of Gujarat, India.