RIP Charles Lee Remington
The man whose breath is the breathing of small white butterflies… – Erica Jong, The Man Under the Bed It’s not often that we see the Page Three element in…
Nature’s Layers Unravelled – Encounters with birds, beasts, and relatives
The man whose breath is the breathing of small white butterflies… – Erica Jong, The Man Under the Bed It’s not often that we see the Page Three element in…
It was in March last year that I stole a trip to Sultanpur, a few minutes by road past Gurgaon, Haryana. It seemed every bit like the wetlands of my…
From The Green Ogre archives, before digital video really caught on and became a thing – here are a bunch of quick nature notes from Horsley Hills
The Chinese, in all their ecological ignorance, have reason to be proud. After systematically decimating all things living from their once-bountiful land, they now expect to be felicitated for their…
The ban of the veterinary drug Diclofenac comes as a relief to conservationists. The drug, administered to domestic cattle and water buffalo, has been blamed for the Great Asian Vulture…
At a viewpoint on the California coast, we stopped for a bite, and got more than we could chew.
Birdsong brings comfort to tired trekkers ascending to the heights of Brahmagiri in the Western Ghats
I had walked these fields as a child. Here is where I became a birdwatcher.
“Tusker!” The cry stopped the safari vehicle in its tracks. About 20 tourists gawked at the picture of splendour, like a dark raincloud in a starless sky, chomping on shoots…
I have lived all my life with a green finger. Now scurvied by years of abuse in the urban wilderness, it joins my palsied lungs in an anguished cry. For…