Articles by Visvajit Sriramrajan

Visvajit Sriramrajan is a journalist who writes on the intersection between minority rights, environmentalism and governmental policy in South Asia.

Logging poses a threat to the arboreal Travancore flying squirrel

by Visvajit Sriramrajan 12 May 2020

Found among the lush forests of Kerala and Tamil Nadu with a minor distribution in southern Karnataka and Goa, the Petinomys fuscocapillus, or the Travancore flying squirrel, is among the…

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Logging poses a threat to the arboreal Travancore flying squirrel

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