Articles by Narendra Patil

Narendra Patil has worked with Wildlife Conservation Society (India Program) for a decade on tiger population monitoring project. He has also worked in Ladakh for two years, towards snow leopard conservation, first with an Snow Leopard Conservancy -India Trust, and then headed a UNDP biodiversity conservation project at landscape level.

A brown bear in Sechu-Tuan Nullah Wildlife Sanctuary

[Commentary] Wild garlic extraction disturbs wildlife around the Sechu-Tuan Nullah Wildlife Sanctuary

by Narendra Patil 1 August 2022

At an altitude of 3,900 metres, in the mountainous Himachal Pradesh, thin Bhoj trees (Himalayan birch or Betula utilus), dominate the landscape, an area known locally as Tapa-phraun (tapa meaning…

[Commentary] Wildlife in Tillari valley at risk from land-use change

by Narendra Patil 31 May 2021

River Tillari originates at an altitude of 750 metres (2461 feet) on the gently west-tilted flatland at the Karnataka-Maharashtra border. It is dammed on the plateau and the water is…