Tag: community-led wildlife conservation
Nearly 30 years ago, six tiny pygmy hogs were taken out of the grasslands of Manas in Assam. There was a good reason. The species had come dangerously close to…
A small carnivore with a deep chocolate-brown coat, reddish-brown forequarters and a distinctive yellow-to-orange throat, the Nilgiri marten is found only in the Western Ghats. It is also one of…
On an Indian grassland, a herd of blackbucks can look almost as though two different animals have gathered in the same place. The females move through the grass in shades…
While we rush to get ready for work and reach for that first cup of coffee, there is a particular kind of silence inside a coffee estate in the Western…
In the sandbanks of Bihar’s Gandak River a long-snouted reptile lies motionless on a stretch of pale sand, its jaw pointed towards the current. A few metres away, fishermen untangle…