It’s International Tiger Day, social media will be flooded with images of this truly magnificent animal, hopefully also praise for the forest guards who spend their lives protecting them, the conservation groups who also do their utmost to raise awareness to protect this endangered species, and the lodge owners who provide wonderful accommodation for you
Category Archives: Wildlife Tales
Some stories take time. Some stories require a long term vision, patience and a plan. Some stories require care. So it is with the land. This story is one which started 40 some years ago, when 180 acres of over grazed, barren land was purchased, 160 acres was protected and allowed to rewild, 20 acres
Community Projects & NGO’s, The Rest, Wildlife Tales
Predicted, Preventable, Tragic: How Tourism is Destroying Bera’s Leopard Balance
Take a look at these pictures. These are all recent images of the ancient landscape of Bera in Rajasthan, where 850-million-year-old granite outcrops pierce the sky, as part of an extraordinary tale of coexistence that has played out for centuries. Here, the Rabari people – traditional pastoralists who believe they were created from Lord Shiva’s
Community Projects & NGO’s, Sustainable Cities, Wildlife Tales
A Brilliant Solution to Combatting Over Tourism Whilst Benefitting Local Communities – Introducing Community Homestay Network Nepal
How do you cope, in these days of gross over tourism, with promoting fabulous new destinations that you discover and want to shout to the world about, but don’t want to see go the same way? I now see destinations I visited some 20-25 years ago which were extraordinary and my heart bleeds at what
OK, I am certainly not in the top many thousands of people who have visited and after just 4 nights/5 days, I can hardly call myself an expert but, having being totally immersed in India as my specialist subject for the last 20 years, and having just visited Assam, I realised just how little I