Urban Jungles: Expanding the Canopy in City Planning
Back Urban Jungles: Expanding the Canopy in City Planning 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 cities may seem disconnected from nature, but within the seams of urban landscapes lies a critical ecosystem that plays […]
Sirpur Lake, Indore – A new Ramsar Site
Back Sirpur Lake, Indore – A new Ramsar Site 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 earth. The freshwater after precipitation gets trapped in these wetlands and are subsequently released thus satisfying […]
Saving biodiversity to save ourselves!
Back Saving biodiversity to save ourselves! 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 (Convention on Biological Diversity). The world had just woken up to aseries of threats […]
Permaculture: Boon for bio-diversity
Back Permaculture: Boon for bio-diversity 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 cultural processes that sustain life. Scientists have estimated that there are close to 8.7 million species of flora and […]
Sirpur Lake and bird sanctuary – A Treasure in our neighbourhood
Back Sirpur Lake and bird sanctuary – A Treasure in our neighbourhood 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 and like most residents had only […]
The breeding behaviour of the Indian Grey Hornbill – An Inside View by Ajay Gadikar
Back The breeding behaviour of the Indian Grey Hornbill – An Inside View by Ajay Gadikar 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 been observing the Indian Grey Hornbill (IGH) […]
Birds of Sirpur – A book review by Dev Kumar Vasudevan
Back Birds of Sirpur – A book review by Dev Kumar Vasudevan 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 almost given up for […]
