Back Hitesh Vaidya Abhilash Khandekar As urbanisation accelerates and climate challenges intensify, the importance of urban biodiversity has come to the forefront. The concrete jungles that define our cities may seem disconnected from nature, but within the seams of urban landscapes lies a critical ecosystem that plays a pivotal role in mitigating the adverse effects …
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Back Ajay Gadikar Dev Kumar Vasudevan Introduction:Lakes and wetlands are the most precious ecosystems as they are the starting point of the terrestrial water cycle. A cycle that sustains life on earth. The freshwater after precipitation gets trapped in these wetlands and are subsequently released thus satisfying a variety of human needs right from drinking …
Back by Abhilash Khandekar   It is exactly 30 years ago that the first global summit on biodiversity protection was held in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. It came to be popularly known as CBD 1992 (Convention on Biological Diversity). The world had just woken up to aseries of threats the planet had started facing …
Back By Kaustubh Rishi Bio-Diversity refers to the variety of life on Earth at all its levels, from genes to ecosystems, insects to large mammals, and can encompass the evolutionary, ecological, and cultural processes that sustain life. Scientists have estimated that there are close to 8.7 million species of flora and fauna that call this …
Back By Vindhyeshwari Kumari   It was a surprise, a very pleasant one indeed, when I visited Sirpur lake for the first time a couple of months ago. I have lived in Indore for more than three decades and like most residents had only heard of Sirpur Lake. After joining the The Nature Volunteers I …
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Back By Ajay Gadikar   This is an article about the breeding behavior of the Indian Grey Hornbill (Ocyceros birostris) observed at the bio-diversity park in the Residency area in Indore city.I have been observing the Indian Grey Hornbill (IGH) in the Residency area of Indore since the last 5 years. I always get mesmerized …
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Back By Dev Kuman Vasudevan   This is a book which is a must have for all nature lovers and birders not only in Indore and around but for anyone who is interested in knowing about a lake which was almost given up for dead before it was revived by a group of passionate nature …
Birds of Sirpur – A book review by Dev Kumar Vasudevan Read More »
