निखिल घाणेकर (Nikhil Ghanekar) Profile picture
Journalist. Ex- Indiaspend, News18, DNA, Hindustan Times and Tehelka. Environment, Climate Change, Wildlife, Politics.
Jul 29, 2020 5 tweets 3 min read
The govt and env minister celebrated the success of tiger conservation in India yesterday. But, the government's own report flagged that roads, railway, mines and growing towns are threats to tiger corridors that harbour a bulk of their pop outside parks

news18.com/news/india/tig… Many tiger reserves and protected areas in India are analogous to small islands in a vast sea of ecologically unsustainable land uses of varying degrees, the goverment report said. #GlobalTigerDay

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May 4, 2018 11 tweets 7 min read
Bookworms of the world, listen up! On a recent family trip to Mahabaleshwar, I had the fortune of visiting Bhilar, India's first village of books. Sounds fascinating, doesn't it? So I am going to do a bilingual Twitter thread to show what is a books village after all. Hi! Today, May 4, marks completion of an year since Bhilar, India's first books village was thrown up to public in Mahabaleshwar, Satara district.

नमस्कार. आज, ४ मे. एका वर्षा पूर्वी, भारतातील पहिले पुस्तकांचे गाँव, भिलार, (ता. महाबळेश्वर, जि.सातारा), याचे लोकार्पण झाले.