Protect One, Protect Them All
Declared a tiger reserve in 2006, Kaziranga was established to protect the iconic Indian one- horned rhinoceros, elephant, swamp deer and wild water buffalo. Read More
The 3,167 Tiger Population Figure
In the past, India came close to losing its tigers, with the population declining from roughly 40,000 at the turn of the 19th century, to a dismal 1,411 in 2 Read More
A Stick in Hand...
Borsola villagers were in for a rude surprise when they walked into their paddy fields on a winter morning in 2022. A female tiger had strayed from Assam&rsq Read More
Co-existence
Read 1,000 Days to Save the Tiger, authored by Read More
The Quivering Lotus
The elegant floral species Cleome angulata (synonym – Corynandra elegans) is a one metre-tall herb with a perennial woody base. This Read More
Dugongs
Dugongs are closely related to manatees, and are the only surviving species of the family Dugongidae. They are distributed in the Indo-Pacific region from Af Read More
Sea Cows
Also referred to as sea cows, after their behaviour of mowing through patches of marine plants, they are the only living marine mega-herbivores that feed exc Read More
Studying Dugongs
Studying dugongs is challenging, as they are not surface-active like other marine mammals such as dolphins, that can often be acrobatic when they surface whi Read More
Habitat
In the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, dugongs are usually found in areas that are isolated, uninhabited, and
difficult to access. Some of these marine ar
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Rays
During the survey, apart from dugongs, other globally threatened marine species such as spotted eagle rays,
manta rays, dolphins and zebra sharks have
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