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Bird Walk
Bird Walk Naturalists will lead five bird walks across India on the occasion of World Environment Day, These walks will be held in Agartala, Dehradun, Mysore, Panjim, and Tirupati on 10 June 2023 early in the morning. They are supported by Early Bird, a learning programme of Nature Conservation Foundation and are a part of…
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The King who roams the streets
The King who roams the streets Fears of being wiped out from diseases as also rising numbers of the Asiatic lions have been behind the demand for its translocation to other parts of the country. Despite a Supreme Court order, this has not happened. While the African cheetah settles down (hopefully) into its new environment…
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‘Far-sighted’ and forward looking
‘Far-sighted’ and forward looking Arguments and counter arguments are plenty on the topic of cheetah introduction into India. On Biodiversity Day, we can only hope that the costs and efforts pay off. In a jungle musical chair, the land that was readied and ‘stocked up’ for the Asiatic lion, now has the African cheetah surveying…
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Born in the Americas
Image by Manjula Rao Born in the Americas WORLD BIODIVERSITY DAY Butterflies evolved roughly a 100 million years ago from ‘adventurous’ moths that explored day shifts for nectar browsing. A study based on DNA analysis had proved that in 2019. Extending that study further, scientists who collected DNA from 2000 species and built a butterfly…
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Vanishing Act
Vanishing Act As trees in metros are felled thoughtlessly, the effects are telling The average Bangalorean today is given to complaining on traffic and weather. While traffic woes have become an accepted norm and settled into the framework, the couple of months of sweat and heat are an emerging phenomenon and topic for small talk!…
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Seed, Soil and Sangita, ‘a proud farmer’
Imagine a piece of land measuring two acres, right inside a buzzling metro. Visualise six varieties of banana, seven of mangoes, 79 of tomato, 32 of brinjal and 19 of okra, besides varieties of carrots and strawberries, etc. Now be informed that on this patch of land, some 10,000 species coexist.
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