Saving sparrows in cities, one nest at a time
“Today, if you ask a child about house sparrows, he perhaps would know this bird exists, but probably wouldn’t have seen it,” said environmentalist and documentary filmmaker Rakesh Khatri. Growing…
Articles by Sandhya Sekar
Your Environment This Week: The Bengal florican, forest encroachment & spillovers, declining fish catch
This week’s environment and conservation news stories rolled into one. To receive a weekly email with a roundup of our stories, please sign-up for our newsletter. “There is no fish in…
Most Indian birds declining, finds new report using citizen science data
For millennia, birds have been inherently intertwined in Indian culture, playing prominent roles in mythology, religion, art, and other aspects of human life. A new comprehensive report on the state of India’s…
“There is no fish in the ocean”: Declining catch worries fishers in southern Karnataka
January 18th, 2020. It is a hot Saturday afternoon in Sasihithlu, a small fishing village in southern Karnataka. At 12:30 PM, the sun is directly above us, glaring through a…
Spillover: encroachment into forests increases risk of contracting diseases from animals
Over the past two decades, scientists have been alarmed by the rapid spread of an infectious disease transmitted by tick bites that afflict forest-dwellers in the verdant, biodiverse tropical forests…
Your Environment This Week: Artifical reefs, elephants & train tracks, India’s island forests
This week’s environment and conservation news stories rolled into one. To receive a weekly email with a roundup of our stories, please sign-up for our newsletter. A tiger on my land…
[Commentary] Alternate perspectives on forest fires in India
A recent article in Mongabay-India about how to deal with forest fires in India argues that fire suppression should be replaced by fire prevention with the help of local communities.…
Your Environment This Week: The elephant doctor, scrap to art, green economics in policy
This week’s environment and conservation news stories rolled into one. To receive a weekly email with a roundup of our stories, please sign-up for our newsletter. Politics over population worsening human-animal…
Lion-tailed and bonnet macaques need different conservation plans, says expert
In the popular Aesop fable about a country mouse and its city mouse, the country mouse arrives at the city wanting to see for itself all the abundance and variety…
Indian cobra genome sequence can pave the way for new antivenoms
Researchers have for the first time mapped the Indian cobra’s genome and identified 19 important toxin genes that together form the recipe for the lethal venom brewed in its venom…
