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Why Children Are Needed To Help Save The World
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Why Children Are Needed To Help Save The World

On my very first day in India, I encountered many marvelous new customs not practiced in the United States, my home country. But the most curious by far involved trees. Here and there, alongside the roaring streets of Mumbai were rings of marigold wreathed around twisting banyan trunks like dried rays of afternoon sunlight…

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September 2019
Who's Who?
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Who's Who?

Fact: all toads are frogs, but not all frogs are toads! Let’s unpack this...

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September 2019
The Sea Raptor
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The Sea Raptor

The White-bellied Sea Eagle Haliaeetus leucogaster is one of the most common raptors along the Indian coastline. Nevertheless, the sight of this soaring, broad-winged, white and black bird of prey is nothing less than majestic

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September 2019
Bringing Up Bob Hoots.
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Bringing Up Bob Hoots.

While we were visiting a friend’s farm in the village of Yelachetty, near Bandipur Tiger Reserve, we found Spotted Owlets nesting on the tiled roof… and one of the chicks on the kitchen floor!

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September 2019
Yala, Land Of The Leopard
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Yala, Land Of The Leopard

Yala is not only Sri Lanka’s second-largest, but also the most-visited national park in the island nation.

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September 2016
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The Wizards Of Oz!

Australia is not only a country, but also a continent. The land down under, cut-off from the rest of the world has an abundance of unique species of native animals, birds, reptiles, insects and plants.

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November 2017
Scales & Tails
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Scales & Tails

I was really excited and looking forward to the workshop on reptiles and amphibians at Nature’s Nest in Mollem, Goa, between June 24 and 26, 2017. It was my opportunity to meet renowned herpetologist Varad Giri.

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November 2017
Big, Brilliant And Endangered
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Big, Brilliant And Endangered

When one thinks of elephants, the first word that probably comes to mind is BIG! But elephants, while they may be the largest creatures on land, are not just big and powerful, they’re wise and sensitive as well. Recent scientific studies have established that they are among the most intelligent animals in the world.

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November 2017
Earth Manners
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Earth Manners

Everyday habits matter! Let’s be kind to the planet, animals and ourselves!

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November 2017
World Scan
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World Scan

CHINA’S IVORY TOWNAn explosive investigation by the Environmental Investigation Agency has revealed how criminal gangs originating from an obscure town in southern China have come to dominate the smuggling of ivory tusks poached from African elephants.

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August 2017
Karanpura Must Live
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Karanpura Must Live

The story of a campaign to save a landscape

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August 2017
Meet Erik Solheim
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Meet Erik Solheim

Environmental champion, politician, climate and peace negotiator

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August 2017
Bats in the land of Hornbills
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Bats in the land of Hornbills

“Bamboo bat!” My eyes gleamed when I heard that and I rushed for the bats, which were hanging in cloth bags.

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August 2017
Conservation Photography
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Conservation Photography

As a precursor to the Sanctuary Wildlife Photography Awards 2017, a reminder that a ‘picture can save a thousand lives’. Details at www.sanctuaryasia.com.

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August 2017
Stop The Killer Highway Through Corbett
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Stop The Killer Highway Through Corbett

Even as conservationists in Assam try to minimise wild animal roadkills on NH-37, a highway that obstructs the movement of wildlife from the flooded Kaziranga National Park to the safety of the KarbiAnglong hills… across the country, another killer highway has been foisted on us by the state of Uttarakhand.

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August 2017
The Heat Is On
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The Heat Is On

The Heat Is On

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April 2018
Preservation Of Wild Landscapes
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Preservation Of Wild Landscapes

Preservation Of Wild Landscapes

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April 2018
Prof. Ratan Lal Brahmachary (1932-2018)
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Prof. Ratan Lal Brahmachary (1932-2018)

A brilliant man, pioneering scientist, and a beloved teacher, Prof. Ratan Lal Brahmachary was all that and much more. Dr. Silanjan Bhattacharyya writes about this great mind, who took him under his aegis and put him on the path of Nature and excellence.

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April 2018
Meet Sunil Mehta
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Meet Sunil Mehta

A national-level basketball player and an alumnus of St. Stephens College, Delhi, this eco-entrepreneur started life as a pharmaceuticals promoter, exporter and as the Chief Coordinator for the Rajasthan State Government and the Rajasthan Association of North America (RANA). He now runs a real estate business that seeks to change the image of the sector by helping to improve the ecology of the geographies where his businesses are located. He met Bittu Sahgal at the Bamboo Forest Safari Lodge in Tadoba and spoke to him about how ensuring equitable justice to local communities could end up rewilding India.

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April 2018
New Seeds Of Hope For Nature
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New Seeds Of Hope For Nature

“What kind of far-sighted vision is needed to turn a devastated overgrazed landscape into a wildlife paradise?” I asked myself as I drove through the Van Vihar Wildlife Sanctuary, Dholpur. I tried to envisage what it would be like, or what it used to be like? Did it have the essentials to be restorable? How long would it take? What are the critical biodiversity ‘switches’, the key actions that are needed to transform a scrubland into a wilderness haven.

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June 2018
Arunachal Pradesh An Imperiled Haven
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Arunachal Pradesh An Imperiled Haven

Most government officials consider a posting in Northeast India or the Andaman & Nicobar Islands a punishment on account of the remoteness and the lack of ‘amenities’. In my case these are the very reasons I treasure such postings. The five years I spent in Itanagar with the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), in the beautiful land of hornbills, were among the best of my life.

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June 2018
A Crocodile, A Deer And A Tiger
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A Crocodile, A Deer And A Tiger

It was one of those fateful Tadoba mornings. As my jeep pulled up at the Telia Dam, a chital alarm call rang across from the opposite side of the lake.

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June 2018
Should Art Kill Its Muse?
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Should Art Kill Its Muse?

Could art be cruel? Could it kill? The purpose of art, among others, is also the portrayal and appreciation of beauty. How can it then be self-defeating and exterminate the very forms of life that are its muse?

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June 2018
Birds Of A Feather
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Birds Of A Feather

I had travelled all the way from Pune near the Western Ghats to the Northeastern state of Sikkim in the hope of sighting some of the rare and endemic birds for which this erstwhile monarchy is so justifiably famous.

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June 2018
Wildroots
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Wildroots

In 2016, Assam-based organisation, WildRoots, launched a programme known as Art for Conservation (AFC) in rural and urban educational institutions in the state. A brainchild of Biswajit De, the programme aims to nurture a community of artists and empower aspiring conservation artists to become effective environmental ambassadors.

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June 2018
Daft National Forest Policy 2018?
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Daft National Forest Policy 2018?

On World Environment Day 2018 Lakshmy Raman and Bittu Sahgal ask that politicians, planners, activists and scientists join hands with long-suffering citizens to tackle the conjoined problems of biodiversity loss, climate change and the falling quality of human life on the subcontinent. With over 90 per cent of the accessible water available to over a billion humans being sourced from, fi ltered through, or fed by sources originating in natural ecosystems including wetlands and forests, the authors have chosen to focus on the most immediate threat to natural India by way of the poorly-drafted, irresponsibly-posited Draft National Forest Policy 2018 for India.

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June 2018
wildlife affected by floods in northeast india
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wildlife affected by floods in northeast india

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september 2016
earth manners
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earth manners

everyday habits matter! let’s be kind to the planet, animals and ourselves!

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september 2016
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Satpura: The Highs & Lows

Captain J. Forsyth said, ‘‘in the very centre of India, lies a considerable region to which the term ‘highland’ is strictly applicable and where there are numerous peaks and ranges where the term ‘mountain’ could be rightly used.’’ This is an apt description of the Satpura National Park located south of Hoshangabad, and the location of my wild getaway.

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July 2017
All That Glitters...
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All That Glitters...

You’re a langur.Just imagine,okay?.Not any old langur,but a very special one,with golden fur!

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July 2017

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