Don’t be oblivious of our natural heritage
Hindustan TimesLast Sunday, along with three friends, I went on a field trip to Mirzapur in Uttar Pradesh. Singh also showed us camera-trap images of the Asiatic wild cat, also known as Indian desert cat, leopard, civet, sloth bear, sambar deer, porcupines, and jackals from a recent survey by Vindhyan Ecology and Natural History Foundation, a non-governmental organisation working towards establishing a conservation reserve in Mirzapur. India is only 2.4% of the world’s total land surface with 18% of the world population, 8.1% of the global species diversity jostling with 535.78 million livestock. If you want to know more about the world’s natural heritage and how humans are destroying it, do look up The Fence, an artwork by the American novelist Daniel Quinn. It is a satire on human civilisation’s unabated expansion, our changing relationship with the natural world, and why we should not remain oblivious of a heritage called biodiversity.
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