Posted by: Joydip & Suchandra Kundu on
May 10, 2010
Sunderbans loses Tanti, the ‘keeper’ of its Tigers
Prithvijit Mitra | TNN
Kolkata: He dared to look the tiger in the eye in the treacherous Sunderbans terrain, often without a gun. He would crouch in the bushes for hours, swim across the Matla or camp outside a village hut to help capture a straying tiger. In an illustrious
Posted by: Prerna Bindra on
May 05, 2010
As detailed in a previous story (Elephants Must forget, http://indianaturally.blogspot.com/search?q=elephants+must+forget), the Gola river corridor, a crucial tiger and elephant corridor that connected the Terai East with the West divisions is all but lost. Already under pressure from boulder mining, possible expansion of an
Posted by: Aditya Chandra Panda on
Mar 09, 2010
News has come in that the largest village in the core area of Similipal Tiger Reserve, Jenabil, shifted out of the reserve voluntarily on 9th March 2010.
62 families shifted out from Jenabil in Similipal's core area to the 'model village' created for them at Ambdiha, outside the reserve. Keeping with the NTCA's guidelines, every
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
