Rediscovering Georgia’s lost velvet scoter 

After a chance sighting of a bird believed to have been lost from Georgia, Nika Paposhvili made saving the bird his life’s work. Against the odds, his mission is proving successful.  For much of Nika Paposhvili’s early life, nature was a resource to be used for survival. Born in Kalauri, in Georgia’s eastern Kakheti region, in 1988, Nika recalls the 1990s as ‘a hard time in Georgia’, following the collapse of the Soviet Union.  ‘Everyone was […] trying to stay alive’, says Nika. ‘My family w