Garima Gupta is a PhD candidate at Newcastle University. Her project aims to address biodiversity loss and human linkages in the Indian Himalayas, a biodiversity hotspot home to many sacred landscapes and the source of eight of the largest rivers in Asia. Her research focuses on ecology and conservation status of a highly threatened and high profile group of Himalayan species, Galliformes or ‘game birds’ (pheasants, partridges and quails).