Overview

• Purnima Devi Barman led a community training for 20 Cambodian women conservationists and park rangers to adapt Assam’s Hargila Army approach at the Ramsar-designated Prek Toal Bird Sanctuary.
• Cambodia’s Wildlife Conservation Society inaugurated educational posters designed by Barman to illustrate the Greater Adjutant Stork’s behavioural ethogram.
• The newly formed Sisters and Brothers of Storks network will collaborate with the Hargila Army to protect Greater Adjutant and other stork species globally.
• Interactive activities blended traditional knowledge and ecological science through leadership mapping exercises, a “textile hunt” and a “web of life” game.
• Organizers now plan to tailor community-led stork conservation strategies and sustain links between Assam and Cambodian communities after the initial workshop.