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Kibber’s local ‘helicopter’ is a curious metal contraption called Angulimala
BLink / July 2016 / Travel
Author, 'My Husband and Other Animals' | Travel writer | Journalist - environment, forest, & wildlife conservation | Science writer - The Wire | janaki@gmail.com @janakilenin
Kibber’s local ‘helicopter’ is a curious metal contraption called Angulimala
BLink / July 2016 / Travel
A suspected man-eating tiger has no place in the wild. Releasing him would be a conservation catastrophe.
The Wire / May 2016 / Wildlife
To reduce livestock losses to snow leopards, a community set up reserves to boost numbers of wild herbivores. Was it a success?
Firstpost / May 2016 / Wildlife
Villagers run insure their horses, an indigenous breed called Chamurthi, from losses caused by disease and predators
Quartz / May 2016 / Wildlife
Famously agile and elusive, the snow leopard is feared by Himalayan villagers whose livestock it takes, but an innovative project is helping both people and cats thrive
BBC Wildlife / February 2016 / Wildlife / [Pdf , 686 KB]
On the natural history, venom, and experiences with India's most fearsome snake, the common Indian krait
The Indian Quarterly / January 2016 / Wildlife
An enterprising NGO provides villagers in the Spiti Valley with insurance for their livestock against snow leopard attacks
The Hindu Business Line Ink / February 2016 / Wildlife
Some of the causes being explored by the scientists are the shape of the coastal topography that traps them and the tight social relationships with others in the pod that may predispose them to strand.
The Wire / January 2016 / Wildlife
Tribal women protect forests in Himachal Pradesh’s Lahaul region, using fines, social boycotts and the law
Mint Lounge / January 2016 / Forest Conservation
To stop snow leopards killing valuable livestock, villagers in Himachal Pradesh have changed the way they manage land to increase the endangered cat’s wild prey, while an insurance scheme offers compensation for lost stock
The Guardian / December 2015 / Wildlife
Many elephants get electrocuted by low-slung overhead electric cables before authorities take action
India Untamed: A Guardian Environment Blog / September 2015 / Wildlife
Authorities seek to widen a road that would cut wildlife corridors and put the future sustainability of three tiger reserves at risk
India Untamed: A Guardian Environment Blog / August 2015 / Wildlife
An indigenous tribe of Arunachal Pradesh, the Monpa, fears its religious and cultural sites will be affected by 15 hydroelectric projects
India Untamed: A Guardian Environment Blog / August 2015 / People In Conservation
A project to connect two rivers will drown a large part of Panna national park in central India. Not only people, tigers will also be displaced
India Untamed: a Guardian Environment Blog / August 2015 / Wildlife
A gang of poachers, said to have killed more than 20 elephants for their tusks, was busted by Kerala state’s forest department
India Untamed: A Guardian Environment Blog / August 2015 / Wildlife
appreciating the many splendours of Agumbe, the wettest place in South India
The Indian Quarterly / July 2015 / Outdoors
Three French banks say they will not invest in Rampal power plant in Bangladesh. As the plant struggles for funding, a report says it is non-compliant with minimum environmental and social standards
India Untamed: a Guardian Environment Blog / June 2015 / Environment
This expansive essay traces the contribution of Indian women to wildlife conservation and research.
Sanctuary Asia / June 2015 / People In Conservation
A New York Times story of an eight-year-old’s struggle to draw a breath of air set off a storm of protest. Was it a case of shooting the messenger?
India Untamed: A Guardian Environment Blog / June 2015 / Environment
Warmer temperatures and the consequent water scarcity during seeding season have forced people in Ladakh to look for newer ways to freeze floods of water in the winter.
Scroll.in / May 2015 / Environment
Within a week, India’s ministry of environment and forest finds itself committed to conducting an overall impact assessment of dams in the rivers Ganga and Brahmaputra
India Untamed: a Guardian Environment Blog / May 2015 / Environment
A new law threatens Rajasthan’s camels
The Carvan / April 2015 / Animals
Indian minister is not attending the first international meeting for the conservation of snow leopards in Kyrgyzstan despite the need for greater conservation efforts to protect its leopard populations
India Untamed: a Guardian Environment Blog / March 2015 / Wildlife
Norway’s pension fund may withdraw investment from a coal plant to be built with Indian partner on the edge of Sundarbans mangrove forest, citing threat of severe environmental damage
India Untamed: a Guardian Environment Blog / March 2015 / Environment
Eighteen months after the catastrophic Uttarakhand floods, dams repeatedly vetoed by experts for causing irreparable ecological damage are likely to be approved
India Untamed: a Guardian Environment Blog / March 2015 / Environment
A travelogue through Sabah evokes its ancient name
Outlook Traveller / February 2015 / Travel / [Pdf , 2.31 MB]
Engineers are creating giant pyramids of ice in the drought-hit Indian Himalayas to see if the melt water they release can help solve water shortages during the region’s dry season
The Guardian / February 2015 / Environment
India’s laws and policies guide management of animals inside forests, but there’s no state policy to deal with predators living amongst people.
The Hindu / January 2015 / Wildlife
A unique participatory initiative in Mumbai helps residents deal with their fear of living with leopards
India Untamed: a Guardian Environment Blog / January 2015 / People In Conservation
In 18 years, Rajasthan’s camel population has dropped from seven lakh to two lakh. The people most impacted are the Raika, traditional camel rearers, who fight government apathy, a poor market for camels, and loss of grazing rights.
Fountain Ink Magazine / January 2015 / People In Conservation
If leopards can live off anything and live anywhere, what are our options of managing them?
BBC Wildlife / December 2014 / Wildlife / [Pdf , 955 KB]
Forest officials had ignored warning that relocating animal who had lost fear of humans was a dangerous and misguided conservation strategy
India Untamed: a Guardian Environment Blog / December 2014 / Wildlife
Scared residents of Talawade in Karnataka are calling for forest officials to recapture a tiger, suspected of killing a woman and chasing vehicles, that has been released into a wildlife reserve near their village
India Untamed: a Guardian Environment Blog / December 2014 / Wildlife
On the navigational skills and instinct for survival of the Karen in the Andaman Islands
The Indian Quarterly / November 2014 / Travel
Krzysztof Wielicki is the fifth mountaineer to summit all 14 eight-thousanders. He was the first to climb Mt Everest, Khangchendzonga and Lhotse in winter. Next in his line of sight is K2.
Outlook Traveller website / November 2014 / Outdoors
Searching for elephants in Corbett where tourists don't venture.
Outlook Traveller / October 2014 / Travel
The 3,000MW Dibang dam, rejected twice as it would submerge vast tracts of biologically rich forests, is to get environmental clearance – but huge local opposition could stall the project
India Untamed: a Guardian Environment Blog / October 2014 / Forest Conservation
Delhi is the most polluted city in the world, but it may actually be worse as faulty instruments, data fudging and lack of regulation allow industries to pollute with impunity
India Untamed: a Guardian Environment Blog / October 2014 / Environment
The case of ‘Putin’s tiger’ recently put poaching into the media spotlight. In India, a new modelling exercise is helping to tackle the crime by mapping areas where tigers are most at risk
India Untamed: a Guardian Environment Blog / October 2014 / Wildlife
On the international stage, India argues beneficiaries of past pollution have to bear the responsibility of mitigating climate change. But at home, it insists that historically disenfranchised forest dwelling citizens bear the cost of conservation and dev
India Untamed: a Guardian Environment Blog / September 2014 / Forest Conservation
Farmers in Anantapur District, Andhra Pradesh, have severe problems with wild pigs. But it's not a simple man vs. beast story.
The Hindu Businessline's Saturday supplement, BLink / September 2014 / Wildlife
Namdapha National Park, the third largest in India, has an amazing range of wildlife. However, the region has lost thousands of hectares of forest in the past decade, and studies project the situation may simply worsen in the coming years.
Mongabay / August 2014 / Wildlife
The leopard didn't hurt anybody. Will he be punished for committing no crime?
India Untamed: a Guardian Environment Blog / July 2014 / Wildlife
Sri Lanka still losing forests at rapid clip
Mongabay / July 2014 / Forest Conservation
Environmental clearances to be speeded up
India Untamed: a Guardian Environment Blog / July 2014 / Wildlife
Awaiting the rains in Agumbe
The Hindu Businessline / July 2014 / Travel
Meghalaya bans coal mining... for now
Mongabay / July 2014 / Forest Conservation
How terrorism is fueled by illegal logging of forests
Mongabay / June 2014 / Forest Conservation
the discovery of a new population of wild cattle in Cambodia
Mongabay / June 2014 / Wildlife
A visit to Gopalswamy Betta
Outlook Traveller / April 2014 / Travel
A travel story
Outlook Traveller LUXE / January 2014 / Travel / [Pdf , 1.05 MB]
Mussoorie Writers Festival
Outlook Traveller / December 2013
Mussoorie Writers' Festival
The Hindu Sunday Magazine / December 2013
On Cotigao Wildlife Sanctuary, Goa
Outlook Traveller / November 2013 / Travel
On Bandipur Tiger Reserve, Karnataka
Outlook Traveller / October 2013 / Travel
Little Andaman, Andaman Islands
Outlook Traveller / April 2013 / Travel
Erika Cuellar empowers field assistants to become parabiologists
The Hindu Sunday Magazine / January 2013 / People In Conservation
The Navy's bid to use Tillanchong Island, Nicobars, for target practise
Firstpost / September 2012 / Forest Conservation
UNESCO World Heritage Site status for the Western Ghats
Outlook Traveller / August 2012 / Opinion
Book: Green and Saffron
Firstpost / July 2012 / People In Conservation
Rao Jodha Desert Park, Jodhpur, Rajasthan
Outlook Traveller / April 2012 / Travel
Rao Jodha Desert Park, Jodhpur, Rajasthan
Times Crest / May 2012 / Travel
India's stand on climate change will hurt it
Firstpost / May 2012 / Opinion
National Green Tribunal suspends POSCO's license
Firstpost / April 2012 / Opinion
effect of pilgrims in forests
Firstpost / March 2012 / Forest Conservation
what to do with the elephants of Hassan, Karnataka
Firstpost / March 2012 / Wildlife
the terrible cost of damming the Lohit
Firstpost / February 2012 / Opinion
the cost of Anna Hazare's environmentalism
Firstpost / February 2012 / People In Conservation
the hypocrisy of wildlife tourism operators
Firstpost / January 2012 / Wildlife
the abysmal treatment of snakebite
Firstpost / January 2012 / Wildlife
deer and elephants eat their way through native forests
Firstpost / December 2011 / Forest Conservation
the successful conservation of Asian lions
Firstpost / December 2011 / Wildlife
Impact of roads on forests
Firstpost / November 2011 / Forest Conservation
Book: India's Environmental History Vol.II
Firstpost / November 2011 / People In Conservation
Book: Environmental History Vol I
Firstpost / October 2011 / People In Conservation
the role of hunting in the northeast
Firstpost / October 2011 / Wildlife
BSF wants to build a road through the Rann
Firstpost / October 2011 / Wildlife
vegetation cannot reduce impact of a tsunami
Firstpost / October 2011 / Opinion
cerebral malaria kills many in India's northeast
Firstpost / September 2011 / People In Conservation
conservation in private lands
Firstpost / September 2011 / People In Conservation
Snakes have a home range
Firstpost / August 2011 / Wildlife
stray dogs transmit diseases to wild foxes
Firstpost / July 2011 / Wildlife
Should tiger conservation focus on protected reserves or landscape?
Firstpost / July 2011 / Wildlife
Should people be moved out of forests to make way for wildlife?
Firstpost / June 2011 / Wildlife
Namdapha National Park, Arunachal Pradesh
Outlook Traveller / June 2011 / Travel
Narcondam, Andaman Islands
Outlook Traveller / July 2010 / Travel
Mahseer fishing
Outlook Traveller / February 2010 / Travel
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