Sterilization shortest method to contain monkey population in Himachal – Nadda
Shimla: Finding it hard to contain marauding monkeys from raiding and damaging farmlands, wild life wing of the forest ministry holds that male sterilization…
Western Tragopan
Vertical limit – A trip to Great Himalayan National Park in Himachal
Most of my friends and family have already dismissed me as an eccentric because I take off for the high mountain climbs every season…
Great Himalayan National Park in Himachal On UNESCO Tentative World Heritage List
Shimla: For the wide and rare variety of wildlife and high biological diversity that Great Himalayan National Park (GHNP) in Kullu shelters, it has…
WT’s captive breeding in HP- first chick hatches
Shimla: Success rate in captive breeding of the exotic and threatened Western Tragopan pheasant has its best chance this season for not only have…
Of Pheasants and Peasants: Lessons from My Stay in a Rural Himachal Village
I recently emerged from the Great Himalayan National Park (GHNP), where I lived for two months while carrying out biological fieldwork about the impact…
Environmental and Forest violations in the Parbati Hydro project in Himachal
COMPLIANCE AND MONITORING OF ENVIRONMENT CLEARANCE CONDITIONS OF PARBATI STAGE II HYDRO ELECTRIC PROJECT IN HIMACHAL PRADESH A CASE STUDY Kalpavriksh Environmental Action Group…
Himachal to have new State Animal, Bird and Flower
Shimla: Snow Leopard would be the new State Animal, Western Tragopan (Jujurana) (Tragopan melanocephalus) to be State Bird and Pink Rhododendron (Rhododendron campanulatum) to…
Democratizing Nature, Politics, Conservation, and Development in India
This book explores two principal contradictions in environmental politics in India—between conservation and large-scale development projects, and between short-term electoral politics and long-term imperatives…
Great Himalayan National Park Video
Part 2 Part 3 Part4 Please check Great Himalayan National Park documentary on Youtube VOICES AND CHOICES is a 20 minute documentary on the…
It’s dam(n) bad situation in Kullu valley
Publication:Times Of India Chandigarh; Date:Jul 1, 2006; Section:Times Chandigarh; Page Number:31 By Vandana Shukla TIMES NEWS NETWORK Chandigarh: Dams are fast becoming a cause…