Mari, a middle-aged man belonging to the Irula tribe of Tamil Nadu, is equally comfortable in handling poisonous snakes and rattling off about their dangers in broken English to a…
After Cyclone Ockhi caused damage and destruction in the south Kerala coast near the southwestern edge of the Indian peninsula, Friends of Marine Life (FML), an NGO working with coastal…
Almost smack in the centre of the Palani hill range that forms the eastern spur of the Western Ghats, lies the hill station of Kodaikanal. This once sleepy idyllic getaway…
India has recorded a one percent jump (8,021 square km) in overall forest and tree cover between 2015 and 2017 despite population and livestock pressures, even as the green footprint…
Walking along the beach for nearly 8 km and looking for nests of turtles, dead in the middle of the night, can be both fascinating and tiring. Watching an olive…
At the southern tip of India’s Western Ghats, on the edge of a wet evergreen forest stands a tall copse of reed bamboo. Dotting the bamboo’s hollows are round, transparent…
Madukkarai, a location next to a reserved forest in the Coimbatore district, lies on the slope of Palakkad Hills, which is contiguous to the Nilgiris massif in the Western Ghats.…
If there is one material that finds immense use in our indoor and outdoor furnishings, besides wood, it is the cane. Sourced from a tall, climbing palm called the rattan,…
As dusk falls upon the wetlands in Kanchipuram district in Tamil Nadu, a diverse array of waterbirds, from storks to ibises to pelicans, congregate by the edge of the water.…
It was a cold December day in Kanger Valley National Park in Chhattisgarh, India, and Zeeshan Mirza was not happy. He was on a faunal survey for the state government,…
Naturalists in India have rediscovered a rare flowering plant — Arisaema translucens — after nearly 80 years. Botanist Edward Barnes first collected this plant in 1932 from the Nilgiri mountains in southern India. The plant,…