Articles tagged with: Animals
Learning to Share from the Bonobos
Over the years man has been learning from animals, especially in the field of defense, the stealth bomber gets it looks from the stingray, martial arts like the Shaolin Kung Fu was developed by watching …
Safari at A’Famosa’s Animal World
Woken up by the hotel’s morning alarm, I forced myself out of bed and got into the bus to start our program for the second day of our journey. Our first stop was at A’Famosa …
You Are What You Read
Most people would have perhaps heard the story of Guillermo Habacuc Vargas, a Costa Rican artist who is known for his work “Eres lo que lees” (“You Are What You Read”). That is an extremely …
Tata’s Port to Obliterate Endangered Turtles
Tata the company I have a love hate relationship with, I love the Tata Air Car and I hate the Tata Indicom Broadband Service, but now the Tata’s are up to something much bigger.
With the …
Nature’s Best Photography 2007 Winners
Makgadikgadi Pans, Kalahari Desert, BotswanaGrand Prize: Burchell’s Zebras
“The Kalahari Desert covers most of southwestern Africa and is part of the largest sand basin in the world. On the eastern fringe of the Kalahari lie the …
Animal Cruelty in Chinese Zoos
If a nation is great enough to host the Olympic Games then it should be great enough to be able to protect its animals. Not in China, which has always had a pathetic record when …
Smuggling of Indian Star Tortoise
While our papers today are filled with tiger and lion poaching, there is a strong network of smugglers who are ripping off our star tortoises, who are stunning in their beauty with the radiating “star” …
Protect Elephants from Captivity
Living in a crowded city like Mumbai can get very frustrating for us, the crowd and the lack of space gets to everyone, what about animals? Imagine what an elephant, which is the largest land …
Wildlife SOS for Sloth Bears
A former colleague brought to my notice a very heart-rending initiative run by Wildlife SOS, a non-profit organisation, which works in the field of Wildlife rescue and Rehabilitation. One of their main project is the …
Polar Bears in the Endangered Species List Soon
The inevitable has occurred. Global Warming has led to the possible extinction of Polar Bears and should be on the US’s endangered species list, according to the Bush administration.
The reducing level of ice, which is …
