Every year, from December to April, thousands of migratory larks and pipits (Bogari) stop over in the farmlands of Central West Bengal during their return journey.
Here, they rest and feed. They regain strength for the long flight ahead.
This is when poachers set mist nets across open fields — trapping the birds at their heaviest and most vulnerable, killing them and selling them for meat in an organised seasonal trade.
Without intervention, thousands would never make it home.
Year after year, HEAL has been on the ground during this critical season — surveying stopover sites, identifying poaching hotspots, removing illegal nets and working with enforcement agencies to disrupt the trade.
Because of sustained intervention, trapping has been challenged. But the threat returns each season.
This is the critical window. Support our continued on-ground response today.
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