Tag: Wildlife conservation
The Ramganga valley was loud that morning. It was not the usual crashing movement of elephants through the forests of Kumaon, but deep, guttural rumblings. A photography team stationed near…
In the forests of central India, the threat to a tiger may not always come from a poacher’s gun or shrinking habitat. Sometimes, it arrives quietly through village lanes carried…
A tiger claw wrapped in cloth. Pangolin scales hidden inside sacks of grain. Parakeets crammed into cages and pushed through railway stations before dawn. Across India, wildlife trafficking networks move…
In Gonda, a male Ganges River Dolphin was recently found trapped in a narrow canal, cut off from the main river system. The water around it was shallow and shrinking,…
At 5:15 one March morning, Harun walked into Khargram town market in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district wearing a T-shirt and shorts. He looked like any other early customer. That was…
Across western India, the caracal, once widespread across its dry landscapes, is now close to local extinction. But the good news is that recent findings in Rajasthan have confirmed the…
A sound like a whistle carried through the early hours of Amravati, so clear and oddly human that it made the ordinary flow of the morning feel briefly unsettled. It…