Nature’s Layers Unravelled – Encounters with birds, beasts, and relatives
Trees, says Wangari Maathai, are not super-heroes. Let’s soak that up for a nanosecond. Not just another green message from just another loudmouth. For one, Wangari Maathai is no loudmouth. And then, this is a message that will stay relevant as long as there are trees and there is life.…
What began as a YouTube clip became a major wildlife documentary. There’s scope for all of us, yeah? Read more on The Observer The Green Ogre – Birds, Wildlife, Ecology and Nature notes from India.
GS, the ornithologist known as Gopi Sundar, now blogs at http://g-n-s-travels.blogspot.com/ Read his latest on Prairie Chickens. The Green Ogre – Birds, Wildlife, Ecology and Nature notes from India.
I have so much disdain and rancor for China’s ecological eyewashes that nothing that country and its soul-bereft administration does will redeem its image for me. But, this BBC news story (via Sahastra) offers some hope – it turns out not everything about China is bad. BBC correspondent Mukul Devichand…
BR Hills March 21-23 Weather: Mostly overcast with occasional light rain Scarlet Minivet Pericrocotus flammeus Small Minivet Pericrocotus cinnamomeus Bay-backed Shrike Lanius vittatus Chestnut-tailed Starling Sturnus malabaricus Large Cuckooshrike Coracina macei Indian Bushlark Mirafra erythroptera Chestnut-shouldered Petronia Petronia xanthocollis Yellow-billed Babbler Turdoides affinis Rufous Babbler Turdoides subrufa Tawny-bellied Babbler Dumetia…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_k6pLU9B72o] The Green Ogre – Birds, Wildlife, Ecology and Nature notes from India.
In God’s own jungle Whoever named Butea monosperma the Flame of the Forest was undoubtedly a poet. And it is poetry that this magnificent tree lends to the forest landscape of Biligiri Rangaswamy Betta (B.R. Hills). However, the morning on which Sahastra, Arun and I landed in B.R. Hills was…
Feb. 9-10, 2008 Arun Menon, Sahastrarashmi, Bijoy Jungle Babbler Brown-capped Pygmy Woodpecker Large Pied Wagtail (White-browed) Indian Rufous Babbler Quaker Tit-Babbler (Brown-cheeked Fulvetta) Tickell’s Flowerpecker Common Tailorbird Purple Sunbird White-headed Babbler Grey Wagtail Common Rosefinch Red Spurfowl (female) Indian Peafowl Rufous Woodpecker Little Scaly-bellied Green Woodpecker (Streak-Throated) Blyth‘s Reed-Warbler Malabar…
Hard to imagine that the near extinction of three species of Gyps vultures has to do with something mammalian. Milk. Medicine to mammals, toxin to vultures, the antibiotic drug Diclofenac was widely administered to livestock. When vultures fed on animal carcasses as they have been doing for millennia, traces of…
Couldn’t take it any more… I have vented my angst over the reportage of the gharial crisis on IBN blogs. Here’s the text: Curious how the stuff of Animal Planet becomes a mainstream media issue and everyone in the animal kingdom a spokesperson for it. First, it was the tiger…
Via Google Reader: Awesome, innit? The Ecopak: Moulded, Printed, Biodegradable Paper-based Packaging via TreeHugger on 2/4/08 We’re big fans of packaging done right, and we really hate packaging done wrong. It’s no wonder then that we were intrigued when Mark Appleford of Varden contacted us about their new Ecopak packaging…
The more I read about the gharial episode in the Indian media, the more I am disgusted with the petty politicking that has driven me away from a career in that industry. And just for that, I am grateful. So it was refreshing to read Janaki Lenin’s opinion piece in…
Campers, don’t crush that soda can. I came across this interesting stove that is made from used Pepsi cans. It takes a little tinkering, if you’re the tinkering type. But sounds like a good idea. If it works for you, please make me one! More here: http://www.pcthiker.com/pages/gear/pepsistove.shtml The Green Ogre…
BBC reports: The Panamanian golden frog communicates with other frogs by semaphore in the form of gentle hand waves. It has evolved the mechanism to signal to rivals and mates above the noise of mountain streams. Shortly after filming for the BBC One series Life In Cold Blood, the frogs…