The Think Wildlife Blog

What are some solutions to roadkill?

January 5, 2022

Piercing through precious wildlife habitats, linear infrastructure like roads, railway lines, electricity transmission lines, canals and pipelines are altering habitat structure. They even threaten the survival of many species. India being a developing country, a delicate balance needs to maintained between development and protecting the natural environment. Studies estimate that globally more than 3,00,000 km […]

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Vaishnavi Apte and her love for Herpetology

December 31, 2021

In our 21 st century world, we humans are more than aware of all the know- how’s of the universe. We have manipulated our world in unprecedented ways, we have ‘developed’ and ‘progressed’ but unfortunately with an expensive cost. The cost of nature. Climate change and biodiversity destruction have now become an everyday talk- All

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Aamer Sohel Khan: A Young Conservation Biologist

December 26, 2021

I am an engineer, a trained conservation biologist and a poet. I am primarily interested in animal behavior and curious to know how understanding behavior could help to conserve endangered species across the globe. Most of my research has focused on Red Pandas, tigers and swamp deer. Curiosity fuels great research. Well, as a kid

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The Roads Not Taken

December 21, 2021

Written by: Vaishnavi Apte Taking the title from the famous poet Robert Frost, certain roads are actually diverging the yellow woods. (No pessimist interpretation meant.) But roads, a form of linear infrastructure are now considered a boon for development and a bane when they tear through precious wildlife habitat. The images of wild species –

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Can North-East India’s birds recover from extensive poaching?

December 6, 2021

Shivering, we had rambled through the misty green hills of the Shirui Hills of the Ukrhul District of Manipur on the cold, misty morning of Christmas 2018. We one aim in mind and that was to photograph the elusive spot-bellied parrotbill. This species has undergone severe poaching. Hunting of wildlife in the north east is

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The Last Battle – Saving the Great Indian Bustard

November 27, 2021

In the midst of the exhaustive Desert National Park in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, a flock of 8-10 large graceful birds scurried along. In that one sighting, slightly less than 10% of the entire wild population of the Great Indian Bustard was spotted. This is an extremely worrisome fact. The Great Indian Bustard with an estimated population

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Is Trophy Hunting actually conservation?

November 16, 2021

Over 70,000 animals are lost annually to trophy hunting – the killing of wild animals as a recreation. Body parts of the animal, usually the skin, antlers or head of the animal, are kept as a trophy to showcase the success of the hunt. Trophy hunting has been legalized in numerous countries such as South

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Exploring the wildlife of Ladakh

November 13, 2021

Ladakh, the land of high passes, is a wildlife paradise. Home to some of the rarest mammals including the Eurasian Lynx and Snow Leopard, little is known about the regions exotic bird species. This blog post recounts our 10 day journey through the region exploring the wildlife of Ladakh. For years, it has mesmerized tourists

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India’s Big Five

November 4, 2021

It is impossible to complete a world tour checklist without visiting two places. The first is the world’s largest democracy, India, and the second is the African Bush. Surprisingly, both places share a common attraction: The Big Five. The term was first coined in the recreational hunting grounds of Africa. It refers to the five

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Dolphins

October 30, 2021

A poem by Charu Sharma The author Anthony Williams has rightly quoted, “some of the greatest minds on earth live in seas”. And we all are well aware of the cute and cuddly, genius creatures on this planet, the Dolphins!! And when it comes to our national aquatic animal, it is indeed the Gangetic River

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