Posted by: Suresh K L on
Feb 27, 2012
This is the story of rare opportunity provided by conservation of domestic cattle which in turn benefiting many wild species of grassland in many small pockets of South Central Karnataka. The grasslands which are rearing these animals are called Kavals or Amrith Mahal Kavals.
History: The Amruth Mahal literally means milk
Posted by: Bratish Poddar on
Feb 05, 2012
"When asked, as I frequently am, why I should concern myself with the conservation of animal life, I reply that I have been very lucky and that throughout my life the world has given me the most enormous pleasure. But the world is as delicate and as complicated as a spider's web. If you touch one thread, you send shudders
Posted by: Apoorva Joshi on
Oct 30, 2011
Bowfin and Paddlefin caviar, komodo dragons or water monitors, Darwin's finches or hummingbirds, spitting cobras or taipans, tree frogs or gliding frogs, the US Fish and Wildlife Service's wildlife inspectors need to literally, know it all.
Animals, both wild and domestic, have played a major role in the lives of humans ever
Posted by: Bratish Poddar on
Oct 23, 2011
This is about the article "animal people" in the September issue of sanctuary Asia. There were some incidents mentioned of elephants getting lose in cities. Another such incident occurred recently in Mysore. An elephant from the jungle came into the city and a man was also killed. People were following the elephant around,
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
Jul 13, 2011
There is precious little real on-the-ground cooperation between India and Bangladesh on the issue of climate change and the management of the largest mangrove forest in the world -- the Sundarbans.
We know, of course, that the Indian Sundarbans has better WILDLIFE management and enforcement than the Bangladesh side. And that
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 07, 2011
Mysore put elephants on the front pages of newspaper and in the headlines of television news yesterday. Check this out to understand the trauma to both humans and the elephants.
http://www.ndtv.com/article/cities/wild-elephants-on-rampage-in-mysore-city-one-killed-110859
But its like this. Elephants need space to survive. If we
Posted by: Bittu Sahgal on
Jun 01, 2011
The Sanctuary Cover Story June 2011 explores whether and how we can negotiate a path by availing of the immense potential of tourism to educate, conserve and offer employment, YET avoid the minefield of misuse and abuse that afflicts many of our finest wildernesses. And in the process can we ensure that wild species and the people who live next to them become primary beneficiaries of tourism? Can wildlife tourism physically enhance the quality and quantum of habitat available to wild species? People have grappled with this issue for over a century, but few people put the issue in better perspective than Aldo Leopold, the famous American naturalist, who opined that, "The problem with wildlife management is not how we handle the deer - the real problem is one of human management."
