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The author founded the Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal and specializes in butterflies and moths, which he uses as bio-indicators to assess the health of forests and groundwater.
VARIETY
| 5-minute read
Nainital is a mess. How many disasters can Uttarakhand bear?
No contingency plans are in place for such an event.
VARIETY
| 5-minute read
Who is setting India's forests on fire every year?
A few years more of forest fires can ensure that whatever small patches of forest are left will vanish.
VARIETY
| 7-minute read
Why India is terrible at getting the names of flora and fauna right
There is no governing body for monitoring common names.
POLITICS
| 7-minute read
How poor reference collections hinder India's conservation efforts
They haven't been taxonomically updated since Independence.
VARIETY
| 9-minute read
Why India is 70 years behind in understanding its butterflies
What, one would like to know, were the criteria used to decide which species needed protection?
POLITICS
| 6-minute read
Did a ban on hunting help India's wildlife and forests thrive, or ruin them?
It is high time provisions of Wildlife Protection Act are reviewed to extend genuine preservation to wildlife other than tigers.
POLITICS
| 5-minute read
How faulty government policies ruined farmers and made our cities unbreathable
Environmental refugees have swelled the urban populations to levels well beyond anything existing infrastructure can handle.
VARIETY
| 6-minute read
POLITICS
| 5-minute read