Bahar Dutt

Jul 20, 2024 | thequint.com | Bahar Dutt

Are we prepared for the climate crisis staring us in the face? The Quint wants to go big on telling the most important stories of our time. Support us to tell them. Become a member now. Oil India Limited wants to drill at seven locations inside a national park in Assam. This after a blowout, explosion, and fire lasting more than five months in May 2020 resulted in the loss of an estimated 55 percent of the biodiversity in the Dibru-Saikhowa landscape in Assam's Tinsukia.

Jun 10, 2024 | india.mongabay.com | Bahar Dutt

Indian ecologist and wildlife biologist, AJT Johnsingh, died on June 7. In this obituary, Johnsingh’s friends and fellow scientists share their anecdotes, highlighting the influence he had on their lives and on wildlife policy in India. For the wildlife conservation community, Johnsingh’s death is certainly a colossal blow. For the elephants in thejungle, the landscapes where Johnsingh once walked, it is a bigger loss, writes the author of this obituary.

Mar 26, 2024 | dw.com | Bahar Dutt

03/26/2024March 26, 2024Climate change has brought heat waves to northern India, but also colder weather. How do people living in poverty and without shelter cope? https://p.dw.com/p/4dzRoIn North Indian states like Delhi and Punjab, winters have gotten shorter but have featured more intense cold waves. That has posed a great challenge to the people living in poverty.

Sep 19, 2023 | hindi.thequint.com | Bahar Dutt

Project Cheetah के एक साल पूरे, भारत में चीतों को फिर से बसाने का महत्वाकांक्षी प्रोजेक्ट कितना सफल रहा? निडर, सच्ची, और असरदार खबरों के लिएProject Cheetah: ठीक एक साल पहले मैं 900 किलोमीटर लंबी सड़क यात्रा पर निकली थी, स्टोरी तक पहुंचने की कोशिश करना, उस स्टोरी से भी अधिक मुश्किल लग रहा था. दूसरे हाई प्रोफाइल पार्कों से एकदम उलट, कुनो नेशनल पार्क भारत के सफारी मैप पर कहीं भी मौजूद नहीं है.

Sep 16, 2023 | thequint.com | Bahar Dutt

Exactly a year ago, I set out on a 900 km-long road trip where trying to get to the story seemed more daunting than the story itself. Kuno National Park unlike the other high profile ones exists nowhere on the Safari Map of India. There are no resorts greeting you with lemon-scented towels on your arrival, or a tan-coloured gypsy with your own personal naturalist, none of the trappings of a fancy safari.