Rizwan Mithawala has clambered up trees to photograph the atlas moth, lost his way deep in the forest, and felt the sting of tick bites while chasing butterflies. As a conservation writer, editor, and photographer for the Wildlife Conservation Trust, his job takes him to national parks across India. Most weekends, he can be found at the Sanjay Gandhi National Park, a sprawling, 40-square-mile forest that boasts as many as 170 species of butterflies in the metropolis of Mumbai. But the early stages of the coronavirus lockdown in India—one of…
