COVID-19
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The Fog Clears: Unwinding Under a Fig Tree
When time spent with family and friends in nature helped relieve some of the lingering symptoms of Covid-19
Wild Vault
COVID-19 Vaccine: The Shark Has a Few Suggestions
Cartoons and illustrations on wildlife, environment, and conservation
Green Humour
Nature Journaling with Prerna Gupta
Botanical and wildlife artist Prerna Gupta tells us her secret of discovering the natural world around us — through art!
Multimedia
Poaching Increases During Covid-19 Lockdown in Rajasthan
More than 3O cases of killing of animals, including chinkara (Indian gazelle) and India’s national bird peacock, have been recorded during the lockdown, say Rajasthan’s forest department officials and activists
News
Lockdown Lessons in Human-Animal Coexistence
Will the environmental tranquillity resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown really help wildlife?
Wild Vault
It’s Complicated: Bats as the Most Vilified Creatures of the Night
Known to play a very significant role in maintaining our ecosystem, bats are now demonised and dreaded as carriers of deadly diseases. Virologists studying viruses, and chiropterologists who are bat researchers, disagree on how the pathogens they harbour have spilled over to humans
Conservation
Crackdown on Illegal Wildlife Trade Could Prevent the Next Pandemic
Investigations show that meat of protected turtle species is sold in several markets in India. Such ‘wet markets’ present an acute health hazard and need to be looked into urgently in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic
Conservation
Writing On the Wall: Heed the Message from this Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought into sharp focus the close link between habitat and biodiversity loss and an increase in the eruption of zoonotic diseases. India needs to arrest this environmental downslide now
Conservation
The Bat Sets the Record Straight
Cartoons and illustrations on wildlife, environment, and conservation
Green Humour