In this Jan. 24, 2017, photo, a forest official washes a carcass of a Greater Adjutant Stork, an endangered bird, near a garbage dumping site in the Deepor Beel wildlife sanctuary, on the outskirts of Gauhati, India. For decades the big and awkward looking carnivore and scavenging bird was the object of revulsion in its home in northeast India. "It was seen as a bird with an evil omen that brings in carcass and other rotten stuff," wildlife biologist Purnima Devi Barman, who works with a local conservation group called Aranyak, said. "We had to involve the locals because the bird nests on trees owned by individual households. The future of the Greater Adjutant Stork depends on individual tree owners who used to fell trees earlier to get rid of the nests," Barman said. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)