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Neha Sinha is a wildlife conservationist, and lover of the weird, wonderful, wordy and wild. She works with the Bombay Natural History Society and her views are personal.
Spare a thought for wildlife this summer
See goodness emerge from the fallow spaces by just letting them be — here are a few things you can do to help wildlife this summer.
Why we desperately need the Aravallis if we want to survive
The Aravallis are much more than an aesthetic setting to the National Capital Region. It is the natural entity that protects us from desertification, holds crucial water reserves and protects us from global warming.
Welcome to Delhi: The wonderland of bird-watching this spring
The Yamuna River, tucked into the farthest corners of the mind for most of the year, is being parted and cleaved by thousands of beaks and wings.
Why India needs to adopt ecological patriotism
This year onwards, we need to pressurise our lawmakers, and ourselves, to be ecological patriots. There is really no other way for robust citizenship.
Wildlife writing is under an Indian transformation. And here are my top five picks
Natural history and wildlife writing in a decolonised set-up has no obvious traps of power. It is instead sensitive, scientific and occasionally, about love.
Why we urgently need to provide elephants alternate routes to move about
If elephants are to survive, much more intensive habitat management is needed.
Wet is not waste: Wetlands may not look much to us, but they are a lifeline for birds
While India gets tens of thousands of migratory birds, we have not had sustained conservation work for many species.
We could not save Avni. Can we now save her cubs, please?
Despite several protests, the suspected man-eater was killed in a midnight encounter. There was no state-approved vet present.
Durga Puja is proof our rivers are not fit to carry faith
The fact that most of our Gods are supposed to depart through the conduit of flowing rivers is laced with irony.
