Conservation Biologist with a camera. Scholar of Nature. 📖 'Wild and Wilful' @harpercollinsIN, is top 10 non-fiction of 2021- @the_hindu. Alumna @UniofOxford.
Aug 29, 2022 • 8 tweets • 6 min read
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Everyone has loved this Inspection Bungalow. We do need to think how to restore and preserve them. This one is near Raimona NP and was ramshackle - bats inside the (charming) wooden walls.
Apr 2, 2021 • 5 tweets • 5 min read
There are two intentions of this handle:
A. To popularize nature - the wonder
B. To make known the threats that nature faces - the worry
And, to build and nurture community. To make sure nature remains as important as economy.
For all those who said it's just okay to dig for oil in National Park areas - FIRST the oil spilled and the company can't clean it up (it's been over ten days). Countless animals have died in an endemic area
SECOND the oil has now caught fire.
Baghjan, Dibru-Saikhowa landscape.
To jog our memory, the Environment Ministry has just given permission for oil exploration inside Dibru-Saikhowa national Park. This riverine area is an enclyclopedia of restricted range, endemic species: Bengal Florican, White winged duck, possibly even the White-bellied heron.
Apr 25, 2020 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
I have a lot of messages from people, officers, citizens and students saying they hope the world will remain unpolluted after the lockdown is over. The rivers are the gleaming, air pollution is cleanest in 20 yrs.
This won't remain. Here are the reasons why. (thread)
The new 2020 Draft for EIAs introduces post-facto project clearance. This means that projects which broke the law (and didn't apply for clearance) can get away with fines. Norms have also been eased for mining, roads, and dredging in rivers and seas. +