Posted by: Bittu Sahgal on
Aug 31, 2012
On Sunday, September 2, 2013, a GreenKarbon team from Deutsche Bank and Sanctuary Asia, undertook a study trek in the Sanjay Gandhi National Park where the Director of the Park, Mr. Limaye, began by explaining that along with the scores of other problems, this city forest was being choked by plastic being thrown by careless
Posted by: Amrita Balaji on
Apr 27, 2012
According to Wikipedia, captive breeding, (as done in zoos) ‘facilitates' biodiversity and helps in saving certain species from extinction. I'm not trying to be an insufferable know-it-all (that's Wiki's job and yes I like Harry Potter), I just like to get my facts right(and apparently, Wikipedia is the best, PS: Jimmy Wales
Posted by: Bratish Poddar on
Mar 09, 2012
Recently, a pair of sparrows built a nest in a drainage hole in our wall. I uploaded the photos in Picasa; do take a look-
https://picasaweb.google.com/107404388748311172470/SparrowsMakingANest
P.S. the uploading system here is really inconvenient. Please improve
Posted by: arun tp on
Aug 02, 2011
Madayipara is a vast stretch of Rocky terrain spreading near Pazhayangadi Town, in Kannur District of Kerala. It is one of the beautiful landscape existing suppose the last in entire Northern Kerala. The land has immense ecological importance because of its biodiversity of Flora and Fauna.
Flora includes rare species of
Posted by: Sukanta Das on
Jul 25, 2011
As the Climate suggests, it is raining at regular intervals in Kabini which has had a direct impact on occupancy at our resort. Yet there is a set of clienteles who visit our resort every three months to experience the Forest in all its colours. We are four Naturalists here at Kabini and are having the much awaited free time
Posted by: Bittu Sahgal on
Jun 20, 2011
Today was a very special day for me. I met with 80 pre-primary children from West Wind School, Mumbai. My message to them? Nature is your best friend and will look after you forever, but you must also look after Mother Nature and not hurt her in any way. We spoke about the tiger, about whale sharks, the oceans, the high
Posted by: Bittu Sahgal on
Jun 06, 2011
I have been watching a well near the Sahir Agiari on Warden Road for over ten years now. The water is sweet and cool and drinkable... thanks to the tiny fish, frogs and an incredible turtle family that works in tandem with the fish and frogs to keep the well scrupulously clean. When the monsoons begin the water level in the
Posted by: Somesh Goyal, IPS on
Jan 27, 2011
Hi Folks!
I was travelling on work to inspect one of my Battalions located in Jungalberri some 12 km from Sujanpur in Hamirpur district in Himachal Pradesh.
This short journey was most rewarding in the last few days as we saw a dozen Ruddy Shelducks in the Beas river at Sujanpur. Their sighting has never been reported from
Posted by: Prerna Bindra on
May 02, 2010
A confession...this is not being reported from the field. I have not personally visited Bharatpur National Park, not recently anyway. You could say I have abandoned it in its dire days-I simply do not have the heart to witness the slow death of the wetland, once fecund and so alive with the call and colour of myriad birds. My
Posted by: Bittu Sahgal on
Mar 01, 2010
Keoladeo Ghana is being assassinated. Prerna Bindra wrote to me suggesting that Sanctuary runs a campaign to save it. This was my response to her and I would like very much for members of the Sanctuary fraternity to pitch in with ideas of their own.
Dear Prerna: Yes we should do a campaign to protect the Keoladeo Ghana
