HAVE you ever wondered how wildlife manage to stay alive when an inferno is ripping through their homes, and afterwards when there is little to eat and nowhere to hide? The answer is adaptation and old-fashioned ingenuity. Australia’s bushfire season is far from over, and the cost to wildlife has been epic. A sobering estimate […]
Category: Happy to Report
2019 Saw Happy Outcomes Of Conservation Efforts
LAST year on March 21st, a group of volunteers engaged in the Versova beach clean up in Mumbai stumbled upon at least 80 olive ridley sea turtle hatchlings for the first time in 20 years! Many attributed this comeback to the sustained efforts of lawyer-activist Afroz Shah. Versova had been known as one of the […]
Mumbai Takes Steps To Clear The Air
COUGH, cough, cough. Achoo. Those were the sounds on my flight back from celebrating Diwali in Delhi. The air quality was so poor, it was just a film of haze over the city as we took off. While many of us are generally aware of the worsening outdoor air quality during Diwali, crop burning, and […]
Mental Health On Instagram
MENTAL health is an invisible health concern that affects millions of people yet is frequently overlooked and underacknowledged. Did you know that mental health disorders make up 15% of total diseases globally? According to the World Health Organization (WHO), “one in four people in the world will be affected by mental or neurological disorders at […]
