Few insects in India are as enigmatic as the cicadas. We all have most probably heard them — they are the ones that make that buzzing and clicking noise, which can be amplified by multitudes of insects into an overpowering hum. Inside a forest, in the dead of the night or just a buzzing sound […]
Eco friendly Paper Made Of Elephant Poop Is Here
It is thicker and broader than a regular A4 sized paper, and it is made out out some extremely special ingredients – flowers petals, eucalyptus tree leaves and elephant poop to be exact! A group of differenly abled people with a little help from an organisation called Athulya is creating these eclectic eco friendly papers […]
Man-made Flippers Give Crippled Turtle A Chance To Swim Again
When an turtle gets accidentally entangled in fishing nets, more often than not, the animal injures its flippers, the limbs that help the turtle swim. This means, that the turtle cannot move in the ocean waters to find food nor can it defend itself from a predator. The injury can easily lead to the death […]
9 Places In Mumbai To Watch Rare Birds
The next 3 months of this year can be a lot of fun if you are a bird lover and bird watcher in Mumbai. A recent Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) survey that was conducted from November to January found 9 spots in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) that will have an array of local […]
Zoos And Schools Invited To Create Unique 3D Art For Pangolins
When art meets conservation, the results are bound to be inspiring. That’s what One More Generation, a conservation organisation run by two very young conservationists, believes in and is trying to achieve with their latest Pangolin Awareness Campaign and Art Install. Teaming up with a passionate artist and pangolin conservationist, the organisation has launched their […]
How Mumbai Mangroves Save the City everyday
The Bombay High Court made a monumental decision in 2005 that led to the strict protection of the mangrove forests lining the city coasts. The decision came after the tragic Tsunami that struck the eastern Indian coasts and when it was found that the areas which had mangrove forests were saved from the disastrous high waves. These areas also recovered faster after the aftermath. Worldwide mangroves are fast depleting but because of the conservation order, Mumbai and its neighboring areas now boast of more than 5,800 hectares of mangrove land which is protected and will protect the city in future.
Selfie Inside Kaziranga National Park Gets Poachers In Jail
On June 18th last year, deep inside the Kaziranga National Park in Assam, two men killed a female rhino for her horn. The poachers were so elated that they took a selfie right then and there, posing proudly with the butchered rhino. Little did they know then, that 7 months later, it would be this […]
20 Greater Adjutant Storks Found Dead In Assam
Is it easier to kill a species that is not the most attractive looking? It certainly seems so as reports come in of the death of 20 greater adjutant storks from Assam’s Deepor Beel Santuary. The birds, one of the rarest storks in the world, were found at a site near the Guwahati Municipal Corporations […]
Northern River Terrapin (Batagur baska)
www.indiasendangered.com Northern River Terrapin or Four toed Terrapin (Batagur baska) Critically Endangered (CR) on the IUCN Red List Protected under Schedule I of the Wildlife (Protection) Act 1972, India. Included on Appendix I of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), making international trade in this species illegal HABITAT This terrapin is found […]
10 Facts About the Clouded Leopard
Clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa) 1. Clouded leopard is more at home on trees than on the ground. 2. It has short legs and broad paws that help in climbing trees. 3. It has a tail almost equal to the body length. The long tail helps the leopard in balancing on long branches and jump from […]
A Kingfisher Turns Into A Frog In The Western Ghats: New Discovery
C R Naik, is a local forest official at the Karaavali area of Karnataka. Sometime back, during one of his routine monitoring of biodiversity near his coastal village, the forester came across a sound that distinctly sounded familiar. It was the sound of a Kingfisher calling. What was peculiar though that the sound was not […]