BARMER, May 15 -- On May 9, two days after Pakistan launched drones and missiles targeting various locations in India - most were brought down by India's air defence system - India moved some precious cargo from Jaisalmer, around 10km from the Pakistan border, to Ajmer, roughly 500km to the east. The live cargo, nine Great Indian Bustard (Ardeotis nigriceps) chicks, were moved in special vehicles to a centre that may now be the second captive breeding centre of a species that has been reduced to a few hundred individuals. Captive breeding - 25 chicks were hatched from captive breeding efforts in the past year alone - has emerged as a possible way to combat (or at least defer), the imminent extinction of the species, and in the wake of the d...