Rajat Ghai

3 weeks ago | downtoearth.org.in | Rajat Ghai

Bengaluru and its immediate surroundings may have surpassed Mumbai as being the Indian metropolitan city with the largest leopard population. A year-long camera-trap survey found 80-85 animals in the forests and scrublands fringing the southern metropolis. The survey was conducted by Holématthi Nature Foundation (HNF), led by conservation biologist and leopard expert Sanjay Gubbi, according to a statement. It found that 54 of the 80-85 individuals are inside the Bannerghatta National Park (BNP).

3 weeks ago | htsyndication.com | Rajat Ghai

New Delhi, June 5 -- Bengaluru and its immediate surroundings may have surpassed Mumbai as being the Indian metropolitan city with the largest leopard population. A year-long camera-trap survey found 80-85 animals in the forests and scrublands fringing the southern metropolis. The survey was conducted by Holematthi Nature Foundation (HNF), led by conservation biologist and leopard expert Sanjay Gubbi, according to a statement.

4 weeks ago | downtoearth.org.in | Rajat Ghai

It was 1997. Half a century had passed since India gained independence. It was a year when patriotic fervor was at an all-time high, aided in no small measure by a slowly burgeoning media landscape (just six years back, Dr Manmohan Singh and P V Narasimha Rao had liberalised the Indian economy, opening the sluice gates of a flood of content, especially cable television, the internet being still in its infancy). 1997 was my 14th year of existence.

4 weeks ago | downtoearth.org.in | Rajat Ghai

It has been barely a week since young Radheshyam Bishnoi from Dholia village in Pokhran, Rajasthan, lost his life. On May 23, Bishnoi, Forest Guard Surender Chaudhary, Shyamlal Bishnoi, and Kanwaraj Singh were on an anti-poaching patrol when their vehicle collided head-on with a truck on National Highway 11. All four passengers died.

1 month ago | downtoearth.org.in | Rajat Ghai

Prominent activist from Sikkim, Gyatso Lepcha, has condemned a recent scaling up of the Khangchendzonga massif, sacred to the state’s indigenous peoples. Speaking to Down To Earth, he called it part of the ‘ongoing attack on the entire Himalayan range’. According to Lepcha, after emptying India’s plains and highlands, corporate interests are racing to empty the Himalaya by exploiting it commercially.