A stronghold of the endangered Snow Leopard, Hemis National Park lies in Ladakh in India’s northern state of Jammu and Kashmir. SPECIES TO WATCH Snow Leopard (Panthera uncia) Endangered Urial or Shapo (Ovis orientalis vignei ), Vulnerable Tibetan Wolf (Canis lupus chanco), a subspecies of the Grey Wolf Bharal (Pesudois nayaur), Least Concern and main prey species […]
Bengal Florican
Book Review: Indian Wildlife Through Poems
“Painting is silent poetry and poetry is painting that speaks”-Plutarch Poetry is a mode of expression with few equals. Good poetry, with its powerful imagery and the judicious use of rhyme, simile, metaphor and appropriate words, can greatly influence the reader and leave behind a powerful impression. With this aim in mind, H.R. Singh and […]
Book Review: Age Of Endlings
Conservation is a never-ending struggle to secure the integrity of ecological habitats, and the preservation of the species dwelling in them. Preventing the extinction of species threatened by it is one of conservation’s major aims. The extinctions of the Dodo, the Tasmanian tiger and the Passenger Pigeon have left an indelible imprint on the minds […]
Western Hoolock Gibbon
www.indiasendangered.com Western Hoolock Gibbon(Hoolock hoolock) · It is one of the 2 species of hoolock gibbons found in India, the other being the Eastern hoolock gibbon(Hoolock leuconedys). · It is listed as Endangered (EN) on the IUCN Red List. · The Indian Population is listed on CITES Appendix I. HABITAT Found in contiguous canopy, […]
Indian Rhino: Surviving The Hunt
“Ambling on without a care in the world”, is how one British hunter-naturalist described that most formidable of Indian mega-herbivores, the rhinoceros. Indeed, there was a time when the Indian rhinoceros dominated the wet, swampy grasslands situated in the north of the Indian subcontinent. Seals of the ancient Indus Valley Civilisation of the 3rd century […]
Rusty Spotted Cat
www.indiasendangered.com Rusty-Spotted Cat(Prionailurus rubiginosus) It is the smallest species of cat, along with the black-footed cat of Africa. It is listed as Near Threatened(NT) on the IUCN Red List. The Indian Population is listed on CITES Appendix I. HABITAT Moist and dry deciduous forests as well as scrub and grasslands. It is found in a […]
Indian Leopards : In A Spot Of Bother
On 30th September, 2015,a young leopard, no more than 3 years old, made its way from Rajasthan’s Kumbhalgarh National Park to Sardul Kheda village of Rajsamand district, where its head got stuck in a pot, probably while it was looking for water. This story has a happy ending. The villagers who found the shell-shocked leopard […]