Book Review | Bouquet of surprises bound to change your outlook on conservation
1 year, 9 months ago

Book Review | Bouquet of surprises bound to change your outlook on conservation

Deccan Chronicle  

How well named is this book? The first essay itself takes you to the core of the problem: how wildlife research cannot be independent of conservation and how conservation cannot be limited to one species. Although the story of the hungry hordes of green sea turtles chomping destructively through the seagrass meadows of five atolls in the Indian Ocean brings up serious questions for our researchers. Fleetingly mentioned through the book is the impact of India’s policymakers and our massive officialdom on wildlife research and conservation. At the Feet of Living Things: Twenty-Five Years of Wildlife Research and Conservation in India Edited by Aparajita Datta, Rohan Arthur and T.R.

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Echoes of nature: Frontline’s top 12 environment stories of 2024
6 days, 7 hours ago

Echoes of nature: Frontline’s top 12 environment stories of 2024

The Hindu  

Published : Dec 17, 2024 18:01 IST - 1 MIN READ Arguably one of the most disturbing headlines from the world of environment came when we rang in the New Year. In January 2024, from a pristine little island in the Indian Ocean, the Great Nicobar Island, author Pankaj Sekhsaria reported on the unimaginable havoc a proposed Rs.72,000 crore infrastructure …

A legacy of balance
1 month, 2 weeks ago

A legacy of balance

New Indian Express  

BENGALURU: In his latest book, Speaking with Nature: The Origins of Indian Environmentalism, historian Ramachandra Guha takes readers on a journey through India’s environmental past – a legacy that few are familiar with. Through their lives and writings, these figures – ranging from the poet Rabindranath Tagore to the economist J C Kumarappa – anticipated the environmental challenges we face …

New National Health Policy for Wildlife: A Holistic Approach to Protecting Biodiversity and Human Health
1 month, 3 weeks ago

New National Health Policy for Wildlife: A Holistic Approach to Protecting Biodiversity and Human Health

Live Mint  

India is working on a new national health policy for its wildlife, focusing on both biodiversity conservation and the risk of zoonotic diseases. The policy will address wildlife health concerns, including habitat loss, climate change, and pollution, and will also address the risk of zoonotic diseases from animals to humans. The policy will be a comprehensive framework for safeguarding wildlife …

India will be global hotspot for human-wildlife conflict by 2070
3 months, 3 weeks ago

India will be global hotspot for human-wildlife conflict by 2070

New Indian Express  

CHENNAI: As India’s population continues to grow, the nation faces an escalating challenge of managing the increasing overlap between human populations and wildlife. A recent study published in Science Advances reveals that by 2070, this overlap will intensify across more than half of Earth’s terrestrial surface, driven primarily by human population growth rather than changes in wildlife distributions due to …

SACON begins training on wildlife conservation for government officers
11 months ago

SACON begins training on wildlife conservation for government officers

The Hindu  

The Salim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History on Monday started a three-day workshop on wildlife conservation for personnel from other services in Coimbatore. According to a release from SACON, which is the South India centre of WII, the aim of the training is to sensitise officials of various departments, who directly or indirectly deal with issues related to …

Review of Anita Mani’s Women in the Wild — Stories of India’s Most Brilliant Women Wildlife Biologists: Georgias of the jungle
1 year, 2 months ago

Review of Anita Mani’s Women in the Wild — Stories of India’s Most Brilliant Women Wildlife Biologists: Georgias of the jungle

The Hindu  

A woman’s passion is often perceived as an expression of emotion than of ambition. Anita Mani, founder of India’s first bird book imprint, Indian Pitta Books, actively engages with this passive aggression that women face in their professions, especially in the field of science and scientific research, in her latest book Women in the Wild. There is India’s first ‘Birdwoman’, …

WII’s biodiversity impact study for rail project in Western Ghats raises conflict of interest concerns
1 year, 3 months ago

WII’s biodiversity impact study for rail project in Western Ghats raises conflict of interest concerns

The Hindu  

Published : Sep 20, 2023 17:12 IST - 5 MINS READ In August 2017, the Indian Institute of Science prepared a biodiversity and environment assessment report for a project proposed by Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd to double the railway track between Kulem in Goa and Castlerock in Karnataka. The project seeks to cut through the Bhagwan Mahavir Wildlife Sanctuary and …

Majority of bird species in India face decline: Report
1 year, 3 months ago

Majority of bird species in India face decline: Report

Hindustan Times  

There are now 178 bird species in India classified as “high conservation priority” meaning that their abundance continues to decline after a considerable drop in the number over the years, and the sharpest decline in numbers is among species found in so-called open ecosystems or habitats, which typically have no protection. India’s birds are facing a significant decline in numbers …

Necessary intervention: The Hindu Editorial on India’s conservation ethos
1 year, 4 months ago

Necessary intervention: The Hindu Editorial on India’s conservation ethos

The Hindu  

The Wildlife Institute of India and the National Tiger Conservation Authority, who are responsible for the quadrennial ‘tiger census’ reports, recently updated their estimates for the animal’s numbers. These would mean greater fragmentation within reserves and more dependence on the practice of moving prey around to maintain carnivore numbers. This approach, however, increasingly poses a conundrum to India’s philosophy of …

How to spot a tiger responsibly
1 year, 7 months ago

How to spot a tiger responsibly

Live Mint  

Fifty years after Project Tiger was launched in 1973 to stem the alarming decline in tiger numbers, India has 53 safe zones for these big cats. Joanna Van Gruisen, who runs The Sarai at Toria with her conservation biologist husband Raghu Chundawat, says eco-lodging is about respecting the wildlife and environment, providing benefit to the communities in which it is …

Can we democratise tiger conservation in India?
1 year, 8 months ago

Can we democratise tiger conservation in India?

The Hindu  

“It is like a big safari park,” a Russian scientist working on Siberian tigers whispered conspiratorially to us after his first visit to Ranthambore National Park in 1996. But as we celebrate 50 years of the Act, and of the marquee Project Tiger that helped bring back our national animal from the brink of extinction, we also need to reflect …

As tiger count grows, India’s Indigenous demand land rights
1 year, 8 months ago

As tiger count grows, India’s Indigenous demand land rights

Associated Press  

BENGALURU, India — It was a celebratory atmosphere for officials gathered just hours away from several of India’s major tiger reserves in the southern city of Mysuru, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced Sunday to much applause that the country’s tiger population has steadily grown to over 3,000 since its flagship conservation program began 50 years ago after concerns that …

Indian zoos: seeds of wildlife conservation
2 years ago

Indian zoos: seeds of wildlife conservation

The Hindu  

I’ll start with a quote from my bestie Jane Goodall. Some of the zoos playing an active role in the conservation of these species are the Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park, Darjeeling, Manipur Zoological Garden, and Assam State Zoo. Conflict mitigation Behaviour and biological studies at zoos, such as the Mysore Zoo, help guide conservation policies for the animal in …

Supreme Court wants to save the Great Indian Bustard: How the bird became critically endangered
2 years ago

Supreme Court wants to save the Great Indian Bustard: How the bird became critically endangered

Firstpost  

The Supreme Court has suggested that India should start a programme similar to ‘Project Tiger’ to conserve the Great Indian Bustard. Once in the race to become the country’s national bird, its population has dwindled to 150 The Great Indian Bustard needs our attention right away. On Wednesday, the top court urged the Indian government to consider launching ‘Project Great …

Review of Wildlife India@50: Wild encounters
2 years, 2 months ago

Review of Wildlife India@50: Wild encounters

The Hindu  

The ceremonious airlifting of the long extinct cheetah, from Namibia to the Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh, and a recent report indicting humans for being responsible for the extermination of at least 70% of the world’s wildlife, offer a disturbing backdrop to reading WildlifeIndia@50. Edited by Manoj Kumar Misra, a former member of the Indian Forest Service, the book …

India has a special role to play in protecting migratory birds: Wetlands scientist
2 years, 2 months ago

India has a special role to play in protecting migratory birds: Wetlands scientist

The Hindu  

S. Sivakumar, wetlands scientist at Bombay Natural History Society has underscored the critical life-sustaining role of wetlands in providing a safe habitat for migratory birds and the livelihood potential for urban and rural dwellers in the emerging tourism sector of Bird watching. Speaking at a two-day programme on “Studies on the migratory birds of India and their relevance for the …

HT Picks; New Reads
2 years, 3 months ago

HT Picks; New Reads

Hindustan Times  

The Rise of a Superpower A book on how China was transformed into the world superpower it is today, another that narrates the last books of the Mahabharata, and a volume in which Nature Conservation Foundation scientists talk about their remarkable work. In charting four decades of so-called “Reform and Opening Up” and China’s emergence as a world power, Dikötter …

'Conservation cannot just be left to people living with wildlife': How this eco-warrior is trying to save Planet Earth
3 years, 2 months ago

'Conservation cannot just be left to people living with wildlife': How this eco-warrior is trying to save Planet Earth

Firstpost  

Dr Krithi K Karanth, the first Indian to receive the Wild Innovator Award, through her multiple efforts tries to address the animal-human conflict and believes that empathy is the way forward in protecting the environment Conservation has taken Dr Krithi K Karanth on a many splendoured voyage into the world’s hidden natural ecosystems like the Western Ghats. It’s been great …

Conservation requires some amount of human presence on ground
3 years, 6 months ago

Conservation requires some amount of human presence on ground

Live Mint  

The past year has been difficult for wildlife conservation organisations and enforcement agencies. The latter, in fact, started the Conservation Heroes COVID Casualty Fund in May for wildlife warriors and forest staff impacted by the pandemic. Kartick Satyanarayan, the co-founder and CEO of Wildlife SOS, says that while forest officials haven’t been able to reach out to people and communities …

How wildlife trade features in the day-to-day politics of Assam
3 years, 8 months ago

How wildlife trade features in the day-to-day politics of Assam

The Hindu  

As we wind our way down to Diphu from Guwahati through large farms and rolling hills, our driver tells us that this “vastness” is what attracts Bangladeshi immigrants to India. Those who are involved get protection from powerful people.” Nature at the apex As we walk across Diphu, a town painted in the traditional Karbi colours of black, red and …

A south Indian wildlife safari beyond tigers and leopards
3 years, 11 months ago

A south Indian wildlife safari beyond tigers and leopards

Live Mint  

For most people, the word “wildlife” tends to conjure up visions of large mammals—tigers, leopards elephants, maybe a few birds. It is to such creatures big and small that seasoned naturalists Surya Ramachandran and David Raju want to draw attention in their visually stunning new book, Photographic Field Guide: Wildlife Of South India. Ramachandran and Raju worked as wildlife guides …

Book review: Urgent need for conservation action to save India’s habitats
3 years, 11 months ago

Book review: Urgent need for conservation action to save India’s habitats

The Hindu  

T HE very first photograph in the book has you hooked. The caption lends further weight to the visual: “Occupying just 2.4% of the earth’s total land area and harbouring 7% of the world’s flora and 6.5% of the world’s fauna, India ranks among the world’s 17 most mega-diverse countries and has ecosystems representing practically every biome of the world.” …

India's Wildlife and Biodiversity Equally Imperative as Its Developmental Needs, Says PM
4 years, 2 months ago

India's Wildlife and Biodiversity Equally Imperative as Its Developmental Needs, Says PM

News 18  

India's developmental needs are paramount but wildlife and biodiversity are equally imperative, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday. In his message to the nation to mark the celebration of the ongoing Wildlife Week, the prime minister said India's commitment to wildlife protection and conservation is strong. However, we believe wildlife and biodiversity conservation are equally imperative," Modi said in …

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