The second issue of IndiEnvironment discusses Haryana’s Mesquite trees (Prosopis Juliflora) which have been cut down by the thousands, on the pretext that they are invasive. Should Mesquite be cut down simply to make buildings? Also, a brief look at the problems with writing on human-wildlife conflict. Image and PDF below. Feedback most welcome! … Continue reading
The government is trying to refine its wetland rules. It’s a case of throwing out the baby with the waters.
Wetlands need to be reinforced as more than just open sources of water. How they are identified and conserved requires a rethink Continue reading
Land or wetland?
A waste of land?
A look at our curious bipolarity towards wetlands, which teem with life but are valued more as land than waterbody.
This piece appeared in February this year, since then the National Green Tribunal has called for the re-establishment of the National Wetland Regulation Authority. Continue reading
What causes a gentle elephant to die on a railway track or go on a ‘rampage’? What stops the tiger from crossing the road?
Little-understood environmental clearances (roads, railways, highways), pigheadedness (making expensive walls elephants can break to keep them in) and an exclusively human-centric approach is increasing human-wildlife conflict throughout India. Continue reading
NEHA SINHA Earlier this month, I posted about the death of 55 vultures because of one poisoned carcass in Sivsagar, Assam in North-eastern India. Following the incident, a team from BNHS visited the site, holding awareness camps for the people in the area. The bottomline: poisoning carcasses leads to accidental deaths of species, often not … Continue reading
One shell is not enough: turtle researcher Chetan Rao on the disastrous effects of an oil spill on turtles. Just One Shell By Chetan Rao Terrible things happened last month. More or less December has been a month of barbarism; terrorism attacks and ecological disasters. On 9th December 2014, a tanker, Southern Star7 carrying 92 … Continue reading
Hi! Recently, like the rest of the world, I watched Chris Nolan’s Interstellar. While it was very much a cautionary tale, of a world in the future riddled with climate change, with disease, monstrous dust storms, and basically no future on earth; the film was also about all that you hold most dear. It got … Continue reading
