Sanctuary Asia - February 2013
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Sanctuary unravels India\'s conservation conundrum, past, present and future to bring readers the latest on our biodiversity and its threats. Read Valmik Thapar\'s ground-breaking theory on the doubtful origins of the cheetah and lion in India, an interview about climate change with U.S. Under Secretary, Robert D. Hormats, and Ian Lockwood\'s stunning photo-feature on the Western Ghats. Also about jungle cats, urban monkeys and the hidden wealth of the Kaas and Silent Valley landscapes.
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Why Children Are Needed To Help Save The World
On my very first day in India, I encountered many marvelous new customs not practiced in the United States, my home country. But the most curious by far involved trees. Here and there, alongside the roaring streets of Mumbai were rings of marigold wreathed around twisting banyan trunks like dried rays of afternoon sunlight…
Who's Who?
Fact: all toads are frogs, but not all frogs are toads! Let’s unpack this...
The Sea Raptor
The White-bellied Sea Eagle Haliaeetus leucogaster is one of the most common raptors along the Indian coastline. Nevertheless, the sight of this soaring, broad-winged, white and black bird of prey is nothing less than majestic
Bringing Up Bob Hoots.
While we were visiting a friend’s farm in the village of Yelachetty, near Bandipur Tiger Reserve, we found Spotted Owlets nesting on the tiled roof… and one of the chicks on the kitchen floor!
The Sanctuary Interview Meet Harvey Locke
Harvey Locke, Co-founder of the Nature Needs Half Movement and of Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative, speaks to friend and colleague Vance G. Martin, President of WILD Foundation (USA), Wilderness Foundation Global (South Africa), and Founder-Co-Chair of the Wilderness Specialist Group of the World Commission on Protected areas (IUCN).
The Unsung Foot Soldiers Of Mahseer Conservation
Standing at 196 cm. (six feet six inches) in his socks, Owen Bosen, looks every bit the quintessential dorai from our colonial past.
Human-Made Water Crisis - India's Armageddon?
Children as young as 10 years old are risking their lives to travel long distances in crowded trains in the Aurangabad district of Marathwada, Maharashtra to procure just two cans of water.
Vixen - Man's Best Friend, Wildlife's New Foe!
Seen here is a desert fox Vixen looking intently at two domestic dogs who have come dangerously close to her den in the Indian Wild Ass Sanctuary situated in the Little Rann of Kutch, Gujarat.
Land Of The Snow Leopard
My long-cherished desire of spotting the Himalayan snow leopard was finally fulfilled at the Kibber Wildlife Sanctuary, in the Spiti Valley of Himachal Pradesh.
Photography As Art
Across the world fine art is taking huge strides towards the goal of stimulating and influencing public opinion in favour of nature conservation. Shaaz Jung, a talented young Indian wildlife photographer, is a pioneer in this field, and he uses his wildlife photographs, enhanced by digital imagery, to augment their impact. In his view, this will bring in new pools of support from artists whose creativity could help turn the tide, by attracting hitherto untapped potential for the critical task of saving our vanishing wilds.
