by SANDRP | Mar 27, 2018 | Biodiversity, Climate Change, Home, Rivers, Sustainable Living, Wildlife
The fact that most civilizations of the world flourished on river banks is more or less uncontested. The examples of early river-valley civilizations range from Indus Civilization near the Indus River to Mesopotamia along the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, Egypt on the...
by Urmi Bhattacharjee | Mar 26, 2018 | Biodiversity, Home, News, Wildlife
A couple of years back, Philip, a month-old elephant calf and his mother, were injured. As they walked through the hills of Assam’s Ouguri Range, which is east of Guwahati, the elephant calf lost his footing and slid down the hill. He then fell into a shaft and was...
by De Biswajit | Mar 6, 2018 | Biodiversity, Home, Photos, Wildlife
Australasian Darter Perth: Photo poem of wildlife birds in Australia Australasian Darter Anhinga novaehollandiae Anhingidae Because of its long and slender neck, the Australasian Darter is sometimes called the snakebird. Usually inhabiting freshwater wetlands, darters...
by Urmi Bhattacharjee | Mar 4, 2018 | Biodiversity, Home, News, Wildlife
Despite the global Illegal trade in pangolins increasing massively even after many enforcement efforts and successes, there is a disquieting tendency to focus only on charismatic species like tigers and rhinoceros in India. Endangered species like the ‘barely heard’...
by SANDRP | Feb 7, 2018 | Biodiversity, Home, News, Pollution Watch, Rivers, Wildlife
Much grief, energy, and money can be saved, if we imagine our “tanks” as the wetlands rather than the water bodies in Bengaluru, a city in South India. This is particularly true as the World Wetlands Day is celebrated every year on 2nd February. The theme for 2018 is:...
by Syeda Ambia Zahan | Feb 5, 2018 | Biodiversity, Home, News, Wildlife
Guwahati: In what could be bad news for wildlife conservation, herds of elephants in Assam continue to perish in various incidents, most of which arise out of unbridled development. Cases of man–animal conflicts are increasing in India’s Assam and have been a cause of...
