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Can truckloads of noisy tourists save wildlife?
Joint management of protected areas with communities living on and around the region should be the approach if we are to hold on to a fast vanishing wildlife. Not unregulated wildlife tourism that caters to adrenalin rushes for a few folks and moolah for others. Today our protected areas are little under 5 pc of…
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Earth was their home
On Mother’s Day, a question worth asking ourselves — How lightly do we tread on Mother Earth? In comparison to our resource and carbon-intensive lives are the simple ways of the tribes of Africa, slowly vanishing. A dream run through my favourite continent a few months ago threw up fantastic experiences with wildlife and the…
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Bengaluru can have water surplus, says scientist
A combination of rainwater harvesting and treated wastewater can easily provide more than the requirement of the city, says Dr T V Ramachandra. This is a person who knows what he speaks. He has, for the past couple of decades and more, worked extensively and researched on many related areas of energy, urban planning, lakes…
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Do we care?
That wildlife constitutes less than 4 percent of all land mammals! E for Elephant? Wrong. E for Egg. E for Emu. E for Emma the bot? Right. No joke, that. Children of the next generation may well not know an elephant as well as a bot or some variety of poultry. On World Wildlife Day,…
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Whose home is it anyway?
Whose home is it anyway? Leopard, gaurs, elephants and other wildlife continue to lose their lands. Conflicts are rising and we have ‘rogue elephants’ and ‘stray gaurs’ and ‘brutal leopards’. Is there a solution at all or do we simply keep removing the ‘trouble-maker’ each time? Recently during a family trip to Kotagiri, we got…
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Every drop adds up
Every drop adds up The clothes you wear, the food you eat, and food you waste, the way you travel and the way you build your home, everything has a direct impact on the planet’s climate. Choose to make a change that can help the 8.7 million species on earth. As the planet spirals into…
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