A group of women dressed in meccal chador,
the bright hand-woven clothing of a Sam India, are gathered on the plains of a wetland.
On top of their heads sit towering paper mache hats depicting a long-necked, sharp-beaked bird.
The women clap, dance and sing songs in celebration after winning the Whitley Award,
one of the biggest conservation prizes out there.
They are members of the Hagila Army,
an over 10,000 strong force of women who have come together to save the bird that adorns their heads.
And among them is the woman who made it all happen.
I'm Ella Hubber, and I'm Julia Ravey.
We're scientists turned radio presenters.
And these are the stories we wished we'd known when we were starting out as scientists.
This is unstoppable for discovery on the BBC World Service.
Julia,
the story I'm going to tell you today is about how community-based conservation has brought a much maligned species of bird back from the brink of extinction in India.
An effort driven by the passion and determination of one conservationist.
And her name is Pneema Devi Barman.
We're going to come back to Pneema
because it's difficult to tell her story without first familiarising you with one of the great loves of her life,
the Greater Adjutant Stork.
And this bird is, let's say, it's quite distinctive looking.