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Invaluable data

JOUBERT VAN INGEN’S death has led to a nasty inheritance row. At stake are the majestic family bungalow, “Bisal Munti”, located on a sprawling piece o

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Art and science of taxidermy

THE Van Ingens published a booklet in the 1920s with detailed instructions and explanatory figures on “the correct methods of the preservation

Stuff of legends

Van Ingen & Van Ingen of Mysore were the master taxidermists of colonial India at a time when hunting was a thriving sport, and their work was pri

VIKHAR AHMED SAYEED

The weird and the wonderful in Galapagos

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Paradise for endemic wildlife

CHARLES DARWIN, all of 22 years old in 1832, stumbled upon Galapagos Islands, partly to escape his persistent seasickness while on a five-year voyage

Safe colours movement

FOR the past three years the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has purchased safe Holi colours made by a Pune-based social enterprise, eCoexi

A legal home for the buffalo

The Asiatic wild buffalo (Bubalus arnee) was recently granted a legal home at Kolamarka in Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli district. A gazette notification f

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This Australian National University (ANU) handout photo released on October 29, 2012 shows a six-centimetre (two-inch) long 'Ctenotus ora' or the coastal plains skink, sitting on rock. Scientists announced on October 29, 2012 the discovery of the new species of lizard 'Ctenotus ora', fighting to survive among the sand dunes outside Perth in Western Australia. AFP PHOTO / AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY / BRAD MARYAN ----EDITORS NOTE ----RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE MANDATORY CREDIT ' AFP PHOTO / AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY / BRAD MARYAN ' NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS

Extinction threat

One in every five reptiles is threatened with extinction, and freshwater turtles are at particularly high risk.

Unequal attention

Lopsided funding for wildlife conservation is resulting in some critically endangered species being driven towards extinction.

First camera-trap picture of a tiger at an altitude of 2765 m in the Thrumshingla National Park where the area will be snowbound in winter.Phot Prahlad Yonzon.

Tiger tales from the Himalayas

Bhutan’s 20,000 sq km unbroken tiger habitat, a mountainous landscape, can support 100 more adult tigers provided there is an abundance of wild ungula

A. J. T. JOHNSINGH,SONAM WANGCHUK

On the tiger trail in Bhutan

Bhutan’s 20,000 sq km unbroken tiger habitat, a mountainous landscape, can support 100 more adult tigers provided there is an abundance of wild ungula

A. J. T. JOHNSINGH,SONAM WANGCHUK

Living with lions

While the continued growth of the lion population in the Gir Protected Area and the dispersal of lions bring cheer, issues relating to human-carnivore

MEENA VENKATARAMAN