wildlife week's worries...

The whales are killed in the deep ocean, the tusks are being removed from elephants and the skins and bones of tiger are exchanged in the border area, rare migratory birds are captured and sold in the black markets around the world. Yet, every year around this time (October 2 to 8) Wildlife Week is celebrated by governments, environmentalists, activists to accelerate the awareness of wildlife conservation among people.

India has two hot spots — the eastern Himalayas and the Western Ghats — is one of the 12 mega-diversity countries. With only 2.4 per cent of the global land area, it possesses more than 45,000 plant species representing about 11 per cent of the world's biota. The flowering plants comprise about 17,500 species that represent more than 6 per cent of world's known flowering plants. There are a number of botanical curiosities in the Himalayas only.


tiger gets the lion’s share:
tiger continues to be cynosure the government's conservationist efforts. Is it because tiger is our national animal? If so, what about peacock, the national bird? The rampant killing of this beautiful bird continues unabated for its feather in India.


dolphin’s dreadful demise??
Among various critically endangered species, the plight of Ganges river dolphin is an indicative of the government's callous attitude to the wildlife. The river dolphins, one of the four fresh water dolphins in the world, found in the Indian Subcontinent are on the verge of extinction.

discrimination unabated.....

besides tigers there are many species that are on the verge of extinction or endangered and also as important as tigers for the balance of ecosystems. But other animals such as elephants, musk deer, Tibetan antelope, rhinoceros, red panda, Ganges river dolphin, etc., are not getting similar care.


this wildlife’s week these are the few of many questions we need to answer??
is mr. jairam ready??

another sad chapter in the history of our long forgotten fauna...