Posted by: Seema Khinnavar on
May 29, 2011
North Eastern Naga Tribe
The Nagas believe that man and tiger are the sons of the same mother. Man stayedat hme while the tiger went to live in the jungle. But one day both were compelled to fight and man killed the tiger and pushed him into the river. The dead tiger body floated downstream and the Naga God discovered it. He sat
Posted by: Seema Khinnavar on
May 29, 2011
1. You can hear a tiger roar over a mile away! It is the largest member of the cat family.
2. It is also one of the most culturally important animals on the planet.
3. According to a survey conducted by animal planet, the tiger was voted as the world's favorite animal.
4. A tiger can eat 100 pounds of meat a night which is
Posted by: Seema Khinnavar on
May 28, 2011
1. People who study vultures are known as Gypsophils
2. Oriental white-backed vulture which was commonly found in India has declined by over 99.9% over a period of just 15 years and continues to decline at a rate of 40% per year!
3. One of the main causes of vulture extinction is a drug known as Diclofenac. This drug is used to
Posted by: Seema Khinnavar on
May 28, 2011
1. April 30th is celebrated as Save the Frog Day. But why should we bother? One might ask. It is important to conserve the dwindling number of frogs in cities because they are one of the major consumers of pests like mosquitoes and other disease spreading insects.
2. Archey's Frog which is almost indistinguishable from its
Posted by: Seema Khinnavar on
May 28, 2011
Genghis – The Master Killer
Tigers are “concealment and ambush” hunters meaning that they do not chase prey for long distances. A tiger stalks its prey, and comes close to it very stealthily. And when it is at a specific distance from the prey, it pauses for a while and checks whether the prey comes closer so as to reduce the
Posted by: Jennifer Scarlott on
May 28, 2011
For an incisive overview of the history, and perils, of nuclear power, you can do no better than to read Jonathan Schell, author of The Fate of the Earth, Abolition, and The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger.
Interested in following the post-Fukushima (not that the crisis there is over!) nuclear debate in the
Posted by: Seema Khinnavar on
May 27, 2011
52 tigers killed in 2000
72 tigers killed in 2001
46 tigers killed in 2002
38 tigers killed in 2003
38 tigers killed in 2004
46 tigers killed in 2005
37 tigers killed in 2006
27 tigers killed in 2007
29 tigers killed in 2008
32 tigers killed in 2009
"We enter the Jangle for searching food and the tiger killed us . . . beside . . .
Posted by: Bittu Sahgal on
May 22, 2011
As my friend Ian McCullum, author of Ecological Intelligence once opined, nature is not slipping through our fingers, we are slipping through nature's fingers!
Despite all the bad news around us and despite Jairam Ramesh's quixotic U-turn on environmental issues, I think we might just about manage to keep the tiger's head above
Posted by: Hitesh Kamaliya on
May 22, 2011
Hoteliers eyeing business opportunities around the Gir National Park in Gujarat ought to start looking for options elsewhere, as the Forests & Environment Department, Gujarat, has banned setting up new hotels within a two kilometre radius of the sanctuary.
According to a report in the Times of India, the department recently
Posted by: Hitesh Kamaliya on
May 22, 2011
'Sinh Samrajaya - Lions Domain', a 15-minute documentary on the Asiatic lions produced and directed by Gujarati producer Nirav Parikh and his wife Swati has found a place in the LA New Wave International Film Festival, Season 2 which was organised earlier this month in Los Angeles.
The Parikh family has been involved with the
