Save the Great Indian Bustard
At the 29th meeting of the Standing Committee, NBWL on 6th June 2013, one of my agenda included urgent action to save the critically endangered Great Indian Bustard. Reproduced...
"The choice is ours to make: Will we stand by silent, and watch the slaughter? Watch the forests fall? Watch, as wild creatures fall off the map of India? Do we want an India that is silenced of the roar of the tiger? Do we want to live in a country where forests are barren, its land infertile? Or will we stand up and fight? So that we do not tell our children, ‘Once were tigers....." If not, help us, help them.
on human nature..
i think the saddest commentary on the nature of man is that all animals, be it the ;most powerful’ predator tiger or the giant among beasts-the elephant or the smallest...
Random thoughts …on the Tiger..
A tiger must live like a Tiger. Live like a King, not a fugitive, in its domain. Persecuted by poaching. Cornered by conflict. Hounded by Homo sapiens. Tormented in captivity....
Editorial -TigerLink, 2013
It’s slipped by… almost unnoticed, the 40th anniversary of Project Tiger , born on April 1, 1973, the biggest conservation initiative of its time, backed by strong political will and...
Why I don’t watch ‘Nature’ on TV
All of us, and I hold myself equally responsible, love to write and narrate dramatic (and exaggerated) incidents from the forests. Of near escapes with death. Of being dangerously charged by tigers and elephants, knowing fully well that, had the animal intended real harm, we wouldn’t have lived to tell the tale. We destroy their habitats, slaughter and butcher them for ‘sport’ and commerce, torture them for entertainment and science and yet we call them beasts? And us, humane? The shows are merely a reflection on us.
No Dolphinariums in India
Great News! The Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India have decided not to allow establishment of dolpinariums in the country. It advises the State Governments to reject any...
They are the country’s pride
Wednesday, 08 May 2013 | Prerna Singh Bindra | in Oped Gujarat must show its largesse by happily allowing the translocation of some lions to a new habitat in the...
Goa: A Tiger State
The following was a report I had submitted to the the Minister of Env & Forest in June-after which he had proposed Goa as a tiger reserve. The report was...
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