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Compassionate Conservation: Why India Needs Culture, Ethics, and People to Save Wildlife

Conservationists must work by uniting people to promote conservation. Science cannot be their only tool for this. They must understand human empathy, ethics, and morals, and use them to approach conservation goals. We need a midway approach – where science must be used to find “humane” solutions to issues that affect our wildlife. In all […]

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Fishing in Troubled Waters: Lake Kolleru

“To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent thinking”, said Aldo Leopold. Lake Kolleru is showing signs of poor water quality and habitat deterioration. There is an urgent need to ascertain the levels of habitat destruction, over-exploitation, and encroachments in the once peerless fishermen’s paradise and birds’ heaven.