Posted by: Bittu Sahgal on
Apr 12, 2012
HORROR IN REAL LIFE
In all my 40 years of working to protect wild India I have never come across a story as horrific, as tragic, as utterly depressing as this. Cut and paste the url given below to see an image and read the story of a living rhino with half its face cut off by poachers. It brutally encapsulates the horror and
Posted by: Bittu Sahgal on
Apr 10, 2012
When birders, butterfly watchers, parents with young kids, kids with elderly parents and all those who enjoy visiting wild places begin to understand that the pesticide and chemical agriculture lobby is stealing our future, killing the joy that comes from celebrating nature, ruining our health, eroding even our food security...
Posted by: Bittu Sahgal on
Mar 29, 2012
"Be careful what you wish for because it might come true!" After obliterating wetlands, coasts, gardens, mills and virtually every other open space, "Free the salt pans," has become the battle cry of builders and politicians who wish to turn public spaces into private cash. Even ten-year-old kids know today that sea levels are
Posted by: Suresh K L on
Mar 26, 2012
While voting for opinion poll on Lions introduction in Sanctuary Asia's website, 2 things came to my mind, whether to vote for Lions to safeguard their future or to allow tigers of Ranathambore to sign off from their very home.
Kuno-Palpur waiting for Lions is known and equally known factor is, already 2 or 3 Tigers managed to
Posted by: Bittu Sahgal on
Mar 24, 2012
At eight the other morning, over the professional, jaunty sound of the news, I heard what must be one of the natural world's most accomplished broadcasters -- a whitebreasted kingfisher, better known to ornithologists as Halcyon smyrnensis. Jubilant and persistent, the brown, white and turquoise bird, sporting an extravagant
Posted by: Suresh K L on
Mar 24, 2012
Rajiv Gandhi NP or Nagarahole NP, ask any Kannadiga, which one of these will they choose? The answer will be, a definite Nagarahole. In Kannada Nagarahole translates to Nagara (snake like or belonging to snake) hole (river or stream) aesthetically named in accordance with the number of serpentine like streams inside the park
Posted by: Suresh K L on
Mar 09, 2012
About Melukote: It's a small temple town located in Mandya district of southern Karnataka on top a hill with series of rocky outcrop hills surrounding it. Entering Melukote is like entering into bygone era. Here is a place, where you enter lost world of south Indian temples with priests of Vedic charm. Melukote is the favourite
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: Bittu Sahgal on
Mar 04, 2012
It's budget time for India and every industrialist is in Delhi, lobbying for tax benefits, sops and policies that can be reflected on their balance sheets. This has been the pattern for six decades now. It's how most fortunes were accumulated by the largest Indian corporations.
If short term economic gains are not replaced by a
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
