Science | Nature | Conservation
Poaching, grasslands getting converted to farmlands, feral dogs chasing the bird away and dwindling genetic diversity have all contributed to the near-extinction of a bird that was once tipped to be India’s national bird, says Atula Gupta. Five of them live in Madhya Pradesh; thirty in Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh and the remaining…
Forty years after the Chipko Movement became symbolic of several conservation struggles, the message sent out by the women to fellow human beings have been conveniently forgotten by future generations, feels Atula Gupta. It was on March 26, 1974, when a group of peasant women in Reni village of Chamoli district of Uttarakhand stood surrounding…