Gujarat’s Kharai camels are famed for their ability to swim long distances and make themselves comfortable in the remote mangrove creeks of Kachchh, but they are on their last legs because of official indifference and major habitat loss.

The fate of these iconic animals has taken a dire turn in recent years, as camel herders encounter illegal salt pans replacing several square kilometres of mangroves, leaving fewer trees on which they can feed and water spaces to cool off.

Habitat loss and alleged pollution impact

If the alarming claim made by a pastoralist before the National Green Tribunal is true, a large group of over 25 Kharai camels perished in 2023 from toxicity in water created by the release of effluents into a village pond by........

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