Soil health and diversity is vital to biodiversity, forming the basis of life on earth. Let's protect our soil.

#World Soil Day

For us in India, Cheetah is a reminder, of how a species could be affected by lack or flaws in conservation ethos!

An ambassador for 'Swachh Bharat Abhiyan' from wildlife, that too during the trying Covid times!!

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Chances are that advances in methods may reveal some members of existing species as altogether new species.. here's such an instance: an overlooked species of Kurinji, Strobilanthes bourdilloni described as new species!

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Lit up, but be in control;
Let no festivity be left
With smoke or charrs to kill.
Happy Diwali 🎉

'Education given from heart can revolutionize the society'
# National Education Day 2020
Pic: an interaction in Thadikkundu hamlet, Silent Valley

First prize winning entry in the shortfilm contest held in connection with the Wildlife Week Celebrations 2020!
Filmed by Mr. Sidhu Das
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Meenangadi, Wayanad, aspiring to become the 1st Carbon neutral Panchayat is in news with yet another novel initiative.A tree banking scheme wr trees can be mortgaged, rather than cut, for money! Worth emulating!

A Wire Tailed Swallow feeding it's young one.

First prize winning click, by Sri.Ravi, Parakkal house, Kannur, in the Wildlife Photography Contest, held as part of Wildlife Week Celebrations, 2020

New discoveries are always pointers to our immensely rich biodiversity and to our knowledge,still limited, on natural world!!

Largest roost of the enigmatic Salim Ali's fruit bat (Latidens salimali), Endangered & endemic, was earlier recorded from Mankulam forests..And the species is listed in Schedule I of Wildlife (Protection) Act,1972, according equal status of protection as that of tiger or elephant

A tree, thought extinct for ~180 years, found from a sacred grove, in Paravur,Kollam! Points to the need of conservation of our remaining sacred groves & Forest Dept. already have programs in place.

Who among musicophiles forget the popular song Barso re megha megha..from movie 'Guru'?
Who among hodophiles forget Athirappally, that had been d backdrop of many beautiful moments, on & off d screen?
Here's a visual treat to celebrate d magical waterfalls
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Happy to join Kerala Forest Department to celebrate #worldwildlifeweek celebrations Wildlife Trust of India Mohan Alembath

#Gandhi Jayanti
# Wildlife Week Celebrations 2020

JNTBGRI efforts to conserve CR & endemic,evergreen tree Buchanania barberi has been included as a case study in the Plant Conservation Report published by CBD & BGCI.A mark of international acceptance, indeed!
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With the dreadful Nipah virus & a series of other zoonotics, Bats and their habitats are under constant threat. Being a key species in food chain, losing them indiscriminately means much more. Here's a rare species recorded for 1st in India,from Nelliyampathy, Kerala

Celebrating a Grass, benefits of which makes it a synonym to sustainability.
#World Bamboo Day!

Wildlife Week Celebrations 2020

Quiz competitions for HS & College students!

#Wildlife Week Celebrations 2020

Participate by submitting your entries..