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Sigur Nature Trust small-grant 2019 for education and awareness
Children from the center of the Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve paradoxically have little incentives to know about their exceptional environment. On the 15th September 2019, the Sigur Nature Trust will...
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Risk our lives or wait till the law is implemented?
Today is the second time I was seriously charged by an elephant because of the irresponsible behavior of people. The first time was on 25th January at 10:20 am (these things tend to stick to memory)....
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Sigur Nature Trust small-grant 2019 for the study of household energy use in...
The villages of the Sigur Region, in the heart of the Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve, are located within a network of reserves. These reserves harbor open forest that produce little wood due to a dry...
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We are all into it
Lantana camara undergrowth in the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve We recently have published a paper: ‘Point intercept method for estimating biomass of invasive lantana (Lantana camara) in the Nilgiris,...
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Incidents with elephants and deforestation
Located amidst imposing mountains in Karnataka with a perpetually misty landscape, Coorg is the place to be for all nature lovers. https://www.holidify.com/places/coorg/ Contrary to what is...
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Greta Thunberg, Extinction Rebellion and the march of folly
Overgrazing is a problem, overgrazing is a problem, overgrazing is a problem – does anyone care? Greta Thunberg, the teenager from Sweden who became a climate change activist, does not need any...
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The ultimate tragedy of the commons?
Some of our colleagues and friends who are social scientists think of us conservationists as neocolonialists and/or pro-capitalists when we say that forests should be more protected. They often view...
View ArticleLow abundance and diversity of seabirds and cetaceans in the Bay of Bengal
This blog is a little a-typical for the Sigur Nature Trust because it is about a paper on marine birds. Notice how fast the fisheries are crashing in the Bay of Bengal. It should prompt immediate...
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A tribute to Bellan, Forest Watcher
Bellan, Forest Watcher, on the right. Nassim Taleb, one of my favorite authors, wrote about heroes in his book “The Black Swan”. He said something a bit startling: if an administrator had taken the...
View ArticleGlobal plant diversity
Our latest paper (here) in the prestigious journal Nature Communications is about global patterns of plant diversity. Species richness is usually described with alpha diversity (number of species in a...
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