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Celebrating 7 Incredibly Large-Scale Projects That Transformed India
Be it the Kerala Tourism project that transformed the state into a premium holiday destination, or the Bhakra Dam construction that gave India one of the highest gravity dams in the world – there are...
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Saving Birds And Restoring Unique Eco-Systems: Meet the Green Warriors of India
From saving birds on the verge of extinction to restoring unique eco-systems that are home to endangered flora and fauna, these green warriors of India are helping make the planet more sustainable and...
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Home to Over 60 Tigers, Mudumalai Tiger Reserve All Set to Become Twice Its...
Located in the Nilgiris District of Tamil Nadu and spread over 321 sq.km. in the tri-junction of three states, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu, the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve is home to over 60 tigers...
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To Kill or Not to Kill? Why Capturing Man-Eaters May Not Be the Right Choice
We were a group of ten teenagers, walking through the dense jungles near Kyaari, Uttarakhand, led by two locals. All we were carrying with us was a Gandhi gun (one that only makes a loud bang like a...
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0 to 54: The Untold Story of How Panna Got Her Tigers Back in Just 10 Years
Set up in 1981, Panna National Park, Madhya Pradesh, became a tiger reserve in early 1994. Fifteen years later, in 2008, Panna’s official tiger count stood at a shocking zero. The revelation created a...
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Students to Engineers: 9 Forest Crusaders Who Fought The Green Fight in 2019
With Australian bushfires wreaking havoc through the continent’s prized biodiversity, coastlines slowly submerging, and cities, including our own national capital, experiencing the coldest spells of...
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2000+ Trysts With Tigers in 20 Years: Meet Kerala’s Tiger Sreenivasan
It was just another workday for Parambikulam’s ‘Tiger’ Sreenivasan when he chanced upon a tiger and its cubs, barely three metres away from where he was standing. Upon seeing Srinivasan, the tiger, who...
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Guilt-Stricken On Killing a Tiger, Padma Shri Officer Went On To Change Their...
Our history is replete with stories of elaborate big game hunts, particularly of tigers and leopards, that were a favourite pastime of royal families in the Indian subcontinent. These events were often...
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These ‘Invisible’ Heroes Risk their Lives For Forests. Why Isn’t India...
Last year, Dimbeswar Das, a forest guard who has patrolled the Kaziranga National Park for the past three decades to protect one-horned rhinos and other animals from poachers, won the prestigious Earth...
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The Legendary IFS Officer Who Adopted a Tigress As His Own Daughter
On 5 October 1974, a female tiger cub was brought to Saroj Raj Choudhury, the founder Field Director of the Similipal Tiger Reserve in the Mayurbhanj district of Odisha, which lies on the fringe of the...
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Meet ‘Mr Ranthambhore,’ The Forest Officer Who Showed India How to Protect...
When the history of tiger conservation in India is written, there is one figure whose indelible contributions will never be forgotten. Known for his trademark long handlebar moustache, olive-coloured...
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How a Forest Officer Clicked India’s 1st Photo of a Tiger in The Wild
Frederick Walter Champion, an ex-soldier in the British Indian Army, an officer of the Imperial Forestry Service [Indian Forest Service] and a pioneering conservationist, took the first photograph of a...
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Adopting India as Her ‘Home’, A British Woman Fought to Save Tigers &...
On 4 October, 2023, India lost one of its most remarkable, consequential and pioneering conservationists at the age of 94. Anne Wright (born Nora Anne Layard), the daughter of a British civil servant,...
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8 Indian Heroes Who Became Legends in Wildlife Conservation
The story of wildlife conservation in India is not just about battling an overbearing, cruel and amoral system of governance but also about overcoming ignorance and public apathy. That is why on World...
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