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Urban Jungles: Expanding the Canopy in City Planning

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...

Sirpur Lake, Indore – A new Ramsar Site

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...

Saving biodiversity to save ourselves!

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...

Permaculture: Boon for bio-diversity

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...

Make every day Earth Day

Back Our Earth our future By Vindhyeshwari Kumari    Development is a word which is gleefully used for, more often than not, growth, expansion, which could be in the form of construction ranging from...

Sirpur Lake and bird sanctuary – A Treasure in our neighbourhood

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...

The breeding behaviour of the Indian Grey Hornbill – An Inside View by Ajay Gadikar

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...

Birds of Sirpur – A book review by Dev Kumar Vasudevan

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...