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: Bittu Sahgal on
May 05, 2012
I wrote this piece in my GreenTalk column that used to be published in the Deccan Herald, Bangalore's leading news paper in 2003. The 'Vanishing Wildlife' I wrote about is vanishing even faster today.
Virtually nowhere in India is our wildlife truly safe. Our national parks and sanctuaries provide some very welcome respite for
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: Bittu Sahgal on
Dec 15, 2010
"How doth the little busy bee improve each shining hour, and gather honey all the day from every opening flower!"
- Isaac Watts
I used to live in a building called Jaldarshan on Napean Sea Road. I woke each morning to the sound of a kingfisher.
Just outside our balcony, growing out of a sheer rock face, was an outcrop of lantana
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: arun tp on
Mar 12, 2010
I have to write some definitions on few terms related to tourism before giving some wide perspective on damage created by Eco-Tourism.
Tour refers to the Journey to various places, coming back in the end to the place the journey started from!
Tourism refers to the business of providing travel, accommodation, food,
Posted by: Bittu Sahgal on
Jan 13, 2010
"As crude a weapon as the cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life -- a fabric on the one hand delicate and destructible, on the other miraculously tough and resilient and capable of striking back in unexpected ways." Rachel Carson
We are being poisoned. Lethal chemicals and toxic
Posted by: Bittu Sahgal on
Dec 07, 2009
"Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfectcreature than he now is, it is an intolerable thought that he and all other sentientbeings are doomed to complete annihilation after such long-continued slow progress."
Charles Darwin
"Live together and flow with nature's tide. Or die alone." That's the
