It is interesting to behold the pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial trajectory of forest governance in India. The forests have been viewed through a spectrum of administrative lenses over the past few centuries, ranging from subsistence to extraction in the past, … Read More
Where a vehicle doesn’t reach, Girish Punjabi walks with the forest staff installing camera traps and recording signs and tracks of tigers, leopards, dhole, and sloth bears. He and his team covered nearly 850 km. on foot in 2019-20 alone… Read More
Equipping the Enforcers and Interpreters of Law: The journey of a wildlife crime, from its undertaking to its adjudication in the court of law, is a complex affair fraught with umpteen challenges for law enforcement agencies in their struggle to… Read More
“…until we turned to another book to find the age of the Earth, the one that was written in the rocks themselves.” – Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson in ‘Cosmos’ Beauty of fossils lies not only in the fact that they … Read More
She is there. Right there, inside a neatly dug-out borrow under those shapely boulders deep inside the Pench Tiger Reserve, Madhya Pradesh. Previously acquired camera trap footage confirms that she has a pup along with her.… Read More
An already fascinating species made more fascinating by the virtue of it being super elusive. In India, even today, first-time reports of the honey badger (Mellivora capensis), also called ratel, continue to pour in from various regions, taking one and… Read More
Nature’s laws of survival demand that predators feed on their prey. A tiger chasing a deer, a desert fox scanning the desert floor for spiny-tailed lizards, dhole bringing down a sambar stag. All normal scenarios playing out in the wildscape.… Read More
This article is part of a special WCT #TrappedInTrade blog series which is focused on the problem of growing demand for exotic wild animals in India and the urgent need for stronger wildlife laws for better regulation of the same. … Read More
The amazing complexity of multicellular organisms arises from pure simplicity – a single cell. Organisms boast of their idiosyncratic morphologies which follow seemingly distinct paths but be it a human arm or a chicken leg, it all grows from a … Read More
What is the value of a 100 year-old Banyan tree sustaining countless animals and providing oxygen, shade as well as aesthetic reprieve to people? What price would you assign an entire mangrove forest that buffers a city from bearing the… Read More