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
The Ganges river dolphin (Platanista gangetica) has been categorised as ‘Endangered’ by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)’s latest Red List Assessment of the species. The species’ status remains the same as it was in previous assessments, given… Read More
WCT held its Annual Review Meet (ARM-2022) at the NCBS field station in Pachmarhi, Madhya Pradesh, on June 28-30, 2022. WCT’s Satpura field office is located within the NCBS campus. Heads and representatives of WCT’s verticals including Conservation Research, Conservation … Read More
Millions of years of evolution has gifted this planet with astonishing diversity of life forms. Insects in particular, which make up three fourths of all the world’s animal and plant species, come in staggering sizes, shapes and forms. Every insect … Read More
What if I told you that a carnivorous dinosaur even more ferocious and stronger than the Tyrannosaurus rex, once lived here in India? We had our very own “king lizard of the Narmada” or the “royal lizard” with a characteristic … Read More
Bramhapuri, Maharashtra: A nippy November night in 2019. Kishor Bansod is circled by a rapt audience of more than a hundred. A mic in one hand and a bucket of water in another, he pours into a one metre high… Read More
Sea turtles have graced the oceans for millions of years, evolving resilience to countless challenges. But the dawn of the Anthropocene has brought newer, deadlier threats: millions of tons of plastic, destruction of nesting beaches, light pollution that disorients hatchlings … Read More
It is make or break in a courtroom. So much rests on the sound judgement, knowledge, fairness, and powers of interpretation of evidence of the presiding judge. It falls upon the lawyers to articulate evidence and testimony and build airtight … Read More
This article was first published in 2018 in the book ‘Wild Madhya Pradesh’, a Sanctuary publication. Co-author of India Naturally and President, Wildlife Conservation Trust, Dr. Anish Andheria has travelled extensively throughout India. He writes of the importance of Madhya … Read More
Every time I see a blue tiger moth, my mind travels to the forest of Matheran, a pocket-sized but incredibly biodiverse hill station a stone’s throw from Mumbai. Every time, I relish the memory of a crisp January morning spent … Read More
What if life on Earth is older than Earth itself, and arrived aboard an interstellar rock from within the unexplored hinterlands of our cosmos? Space rocks like asteroids and comets abound in our cosmos. Stars are forming and dying constantly … Read More
Conservation is not just about activists and field biologists – it is replete with niche players. It is amazing to think of the varied professional backgrounds and specialisations of those working in wildlife conservation. Broadly defined communities of experts such … Read More
Mind boggling connections have emerged in the course of evolution of species. Innumerable species have established a multi-faceted range of partnerships with each other. There are mutualistic (or symbiotic) partnerships, as well as parasitic and commensal (an organism benefitting from … Read More
In the past, tiger conservation strategies have been highly focused on addressing tiger numbers within Protected Areas. However, there is emerging evidence that increasing local tiger abundance, while important, will still be an inadequate conservation strategy in the absence of … Read More
September of 2016. A brief break from the rains, a bit of sunshine. Mumbai’s Sanjay Gandhi National Park shimmered with various shades of green. Being a naturalist partial to the understory, I found myself in the Nagla Block, the northern … Read More