Velavadar Blackbuck National Park

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Antilope cervicapra from velavadar© Wikimedia Commons

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Antilope cervicapra from velavadar© Chinmayisk (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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Blackbucks in Blackbuck National Park© Bernard Gagnon (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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Antilope cervicapra from velavadar© Wikimedia Commons

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Thirty-four square kilometres of flat grassland in the Bhal, hugging the Gulf of Khambhat, protected since 1976. It was a hunting ground for blackbuck before it was a park, which is why the habitat is grass rather than forest — and why you actually see the animals: there is nothing for them to hide behind. Blackbuck, the Indian wolf and the lesser florican all have conservation programmes running here. Wastelands and crop fields press in from the north. Go at first light or in the last hour; the middle of the day is heat haze and empty grass.