Heart of Conservation Podcast Episode #39 Show notes (Edited) Coming soon. In the meanwhile do listen ..read more

Heart of Conservation podcast Ep #38 Show notes Coming soon. In the meanwhile, listen: There’s so much we don’t know about #illegalwildlifetrade My latest interview (Ep38) with #DipankarGhose Senior Director Biodiversity Conservation WWF India, Interim Director, TRAFFIC India Office has been a real eye opener. Do listen.Show notes coming soon. DipankarGhose #WWF_INDIA #TRAFFIC #IUCN #Tigers ..read more

"Everybody tries different things in a space like this to have impact and some things work and some things. And while everybody can share very proudly what worked, they are not always in a position to be able to share what didn’t work so well as it should be. But right now, as we close operations, we are in a unique position where I think openly accepting things that may not have also worked or we may have thought worked, but somebody else assessing might think it could be better otherwise, like to be able to put that out for the whole ecosystem to be able, able to use. I think for me that is ..read more

"But just when we were launching, there was this massive fire that took place at the Deonar dump site. You know, there's this iconic image that NASA took from space where, you know, you could see that fire burning even from space. And it went on for a few weeks in fact. ... The second thing that drove me to, you know, take that leap of faith and see how big this problem is and think that we need to work towards a solution was that we worked with an NGO called Apnalaya that works in the Deonar dump sites, in the neighbourhoods running the dump site. And they gave us a very astonishing fact that ..read more

Heart of Conservation Episode #35 Show Notes (Coming soon) In my latest podcast, I’m speaking to the most passionate, naturalist/researcher/herpetologist-on-ground in the Andamans – Nariman Vazifdar. We discuss the biodiversity of the archipelago – which is mostly unexplored islands with individual unique species. We explore the rain forest of the islands and he enlightens us ..read more

That is when this period of Teak Rush comes in when both the French and the British are on the lookout for wood for building ships. Because all these battles that used to happen were naval battles. And by chance, it is the British who discovered the teak forests of southern India and then they brought in forest laws to control all our forests. The conservation laws that we have today didn’t start as a measure of protecting the forest as much as wanting to control the resources from the forest ..read more

Heart of Conservation podcast (Show notes coming soon) Episode#33 is here folks. Come join me on this amazing journey through various landscapes and communities of India following the flight paths, life and behaviour of a tiny, tenacious bird- the barn swallow. I’m speaking to Dr Suresh Kumar, a remarkable wildlife biologist from the Wildlife Institute ..read more

Ep#31 Heart of Conservation Podcast Transcript coming soon. Do listen in the meanwhile ..read more

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I think, there are policies and laws in place but there’s very little implementation of it. Definitely, I feel these policies and laws could be enhanced. For instance, in places like Himachal, they have a common policy for homestays. It has to have a room with a common toilet with hot and cold water. But in a place like Spiti, that’s not contextual. If you’re going for a homestay, you’re staying in a local person’s house, they don’t have common toilets themselves. So, to expect them to provide an attached toilet which has running water? In the houses, they don’t have running water Traditionall ..read more