Mahesh Bora

A one-horned rhino named Baghekhaity stands next to its 10-day-old calf at a zoo in Guwahati, in the northeastern Indian state of Assam.

How to save rhinos? By turning their dung into paper.

Environment

What do you do when all other efforts to persuade locals to protect endangered rhinos have failed? Pay them to harvest the rhinos’ dung and use it to make paper. That’s what an Indian startup company is trying, with early success.

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