Posted by: Chandra Sekhar Patro on
Jan 30, 2010
Posted by: Harsh Varma on
Jan 30, 2010
The Bandhavgarh action plan -- keeping wildlife safe and making wildlifers feel at home:
- 1.) Scrap tiger shows on elephants. Even the Rs 45,000 rides must be done away with. No exceptions should be made -- not even for Rahul Gandhi! The pachyderms should only be used for forest work and by officials during tiger census.
- 2.)
Posted by: Bittu Sahgal on
Jan 30, 2010
May 2010 will mark the 10th death anniversary of an industrialist and visionary I loved. Most other industrialists thought he was merely feeding his passion when he spoke of the need to protect forests, tigers and such like. Today, of course, almost everyone of them is speaking the language that Sohrabji spoke five decades
Posted by: Bittu Sahgal on
Jan 29, 2010
Parliament’s Wild Heart: I wrote the piece reproduced below just over 8 years ago, when, for one brief shining moment, it seemed like politics and conservation might just make peace.
Subsequently, hawkish economists, ruthless politicians and hungry investors from within India and overseas, combined to destabilise the ecological
Posted by: Bittu Sahgal on
Jan 27, 2010
Statistics reveal that on death row in the USA, a significant number of murderers confessed that their first acts of cruelty were perpetrated on animals. It worries me that here in India, intentionally or otherwise, we may be teaching our children that cruelty is a way of life, by reinforcing in subtle and not so subtle ways
Posted by: Harsh Varma on
Jan 22, 2010
If you thought sighting tigers was directly proportional to how lucky you were, think again. Now spotting the big cat is predicated on how well linked you are. At least at the Bandhavgarh tiger reserve, the law of the jungle has been rewritten.
The new field director is said to have altered rules to suit the tiger. In my view,
Posted by: Bittu Sahgal on
Jan 22, 2010
Trekkking through the Western Ghats forests of Bhimgad in Karnataka, I paused to take in the vista before me. I was at a height and thick forests stretched to the horizon all around me. I had just visited the only recorded site in the world of the endangered Wroughton's Freetailed Bat and the walk back was hot and strenuous. A
Posted by: Pranesh on
Jan 15, 2010
The plight of the tourism elephant is a sight to be seen . During my visits to the NP of Kanha , Pench & Bandhavgarh apart from the pristine beauty of the jungles,the thrill of sighting the tiger I couldnt help but notice the plight of the slogging pachyderms ferrying tourist relentlessly to & fro from the resting abode of the
Posted by: Bittu Sahgal on
Jan 14, 2010
The champagne bottles are being uncorked. The climate skeptics are in full cry in India, with the Himalayan glacier story criticising the IPCC report hitting the airwaves. The original IPCC reportstated that the total area of Himalayan glaciers would likely shrink from 500,000 sq. kms. to 100,000 sq. kms by 2035. The source for
Posted by: arun tp on
Jan 14, 2010
"Haunted Angels" is a simple poem that is dedicated to all the bird species and other sad species living on this earth, either in captivity or in freedom. Here in this poem the word "beast" is used for all humans who never loves other species, or irrationally kills and serves for his selfish desires. If we humans think they
