Camel prices are rising in Rajasthan, in India’s arid west. But camel numbers have declined significantly, says a news story in The Hindu on 29 April 2008.

“The spiralling fuel prices changed it all,” says the leading Indian daily.

“In the past three years the price a camel can fetch when sold went up at least by three times. The camels are replacing tractors,” the paper quotes LIFE Network member Ilse Koehler-Rollefson.

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