Me and Astha Chaudhary write about our experience of organising interactive sessions with Maldhari children in Banni Grasslands of Kutch. The interactions not only helped us in our ethnographic research work to record traditional ecological knowledge of communities
Differentiating male and female Sarus cranes is a challenge, that Sulle, a 45-year-old man from Bibipur (UP) has observed:
In males, the head tends to be broader and their necks develop a darker hue over time, and the male often leads the pair.
Astha Chaudhary Dipti Arora
Today, the presence of plastic is ubiquitous, as seen in these images of bird nests and elephant droppings.
This #WorldEnvironmentDay , how can we #BeatPlasticPollution and live better with the creatures we share this planet with.
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Journalist Mohit M Rao - Mohit Rao and wildlife researcher Astha Chaudhary - Astha Chaudhary walked from Orchha to Bina.
Sound Engineer & product designer Ishan Gupta and communications designer Kabini Amin traversed the stretch from Bina to the origins of the Betwa near Bhopal
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Mitti from the shores of ponds and jheels is auspicious for us. We take a small piece of mud and worship it before construction of a new house begins, Nivada Rana, a member of Tharu Adivasi Mahila Mazdoor Kisan Manch, tells Astha Chaudhary and Dipti Arora
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बेतवा नदी के किनारे किनारे | By the River Betwa. Written by Astha Chaudhary - Astha Chaudhary
A series of articles in Hindi for Chakmak Magazine, from the Moving Upstream - Veditum: Betwa fellowship by Veditum India Foundation & Out of Eden Walk, recounting her walk along River Betwa with Mohit Rao 1/2
#IDRMostRead #GroundUpStories | In Pekhari village of Himachal Pradesh, livestock is sent away during summer months and their return is widely celebrated. But as common lands decrease, this is changing. Astha Chaudhary explains.
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If you love a bird, should you set it free? Today on Edge Effects, Dipti Arora and Astha Chaudhary wrote about the complicated dynamics and politics in crane conservation in India. Read more: edgeeffects.net/complexity-of-…
Me and my team mate Astha Chaudhary shall be organising a workshop on the importance of folklore in the conservation studies at SCCS Bengaluru 2023.
Folks attending the conference, see you there with so many other good panelists and presenters!
Astha, Astha Chaudhary, is currently working on human Sarus (tallest flying bird) interaction in UttarPradesh , India.
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Really happy to share that Astha Chaudhary is writing a series of articles in Hindi for Chakmak - a children's science magazine. Stories from the Moving Upstream - Veditum: Betwa fellowship by Veditum India Foundation & Out of Eden Walk
Part 1 has been published in the July 2023 edition, more coming soon.
Well done Astha Chaudhary! Still so Much to learn from you.
You really changed my perspective towards ecology by explaining things in a very easy layman language. And that happened in a friendly group walk in a wetland.