India has no single word for what happens when a community embroiders a peacock onto a shawl, paints a tiger onto a temple wall, or weaves a blackbuck into a carpet — and has been doing so for five centuries.
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India’s biodiversity does not sort itself neatly by species. It sorts itself by landscape.
India’s land records classify open grasslands as “wasteland” because they carry no trees. That single word is why the Great Indian Bustard is disappearing, why the blackbuck needs reintroduction programmes, and why the cheetah has no secured wild habitat to return to.
A Great Indian Bustard chick hatched in Kutch, Gujarat using the jumpstart method — the first in Gujarat in over a decade. It learned to fly. Then it vanished. The story of a bird on the edge, and the science trying to pull it back.
India is tiger country, but the western Indian state of Gujarat is one province ruled solely by lions […]
Wildlife tourism earns governments billions of dollars in revenue globally, yet India is weeding out the residents of […]
Villagers found the carcass of a lioness killed by torrential rains in Amreli disrtrict in the western Indian state of […]