The Forest Haat is run by Rao Dheeraj Singh (Wildlife Photographer ) and,Amrita Singh (British Council teacher/examiner ). They fist meet in Dhikala inside Corbett Nation Park and tided the knot on the world Environment  day ( a happy Coincidence ) The Forest Haat is a place where you can sprawl out on a bean bag and enjoy a cappuccino or herbal tea with freshly baked home made cookies, while surfing the internet at this WiFi enabled cafe. If you have an urge to go on a shopping spree then there is a wide range of products, mostly handmade, to choose from: Mahaseer Conservancy (Lantana Furniture...

Back                                                                                                                         +44 (0) 207 542 2244 2049SE INDIA-WEED ARTEFACTS @ Dec 21 09:40 (6 hours ago) New question about this script Original Script Date Dec 21 09:40 (6 hours ago) Modified Script Date Dec 21 09:40 (6 hours ago) Script Version 1 Headline North Indian women use weeds to make artefacts. Services Subcon Extra Locations RAMNAGAR, UTTARAKHAND, INDIA Dates Shot DECEMBER...

  1 June 2010 was the official start of Mahseer Conservancy’s 2010/2011 vulture programme.  The following report is a summary of the work undertaken during the November 2010 period.  This report is the sixth of a series of monthly reports will be made throughout the year.  1.Monitoring of vulture colonies  Unfortunately no monitoring of the vulture colonies occurred over November 2010.  Casual visits to Ringora Village, however, has shown that the birds are still there in good numbers (we counted 20 on one visit), and there are several birds sitting in nests – a hopeful sign since this...

1 June 2010 was the official start of Mahseer Conservancy’s 2010/2011 vulture programme.  The following report is a summary of the work undertaken during the October 2010 period.  This report is the fifth of a series of monthly reports will be made throughout the year. 1.Monitoring of vulture colonies Unfortunately no monitoring of the vulture colonies occurred over October 2010, due to our student volunteers leaving, low staff numbers and other work pressures on existing staff.  We hope to resume monitoring shortly by employing monitoring staff who live locally (i.e. in the villages where...

1 June 2010 was the official start of Mahseer Conservancy’s 2010/2011 vulture programme.  The following report is a summary of the work undertaken during the September 2010 period.  This report is the fourth of a series of monthly reports will be made throughout the year. 1.Monitoring of vulture colonies Ringora Village The Ringora Village Indian White Back Vulture colony was monitored by Irene Glatzle during September. The following tables present a summary of the monitoring work undertaken to date. Unfortunately September is the last month where we have student volunteers monitoring the colony. ...

1 June 2010 was the official start of Mahseer Conservancy’s 2010/2011 vulture programme.  The following report is a summary of the work undertaken during the August 2010 period.  This report is the third of a series of monthly reports will be made throughout the year. 1.Monitoring of vulture colonies Ringora Village Elsa and Irene continued their monitoring of the Ringora Village colony throughout August, with the exception of a one week break for a trip to the Vulture Breeding Centre in Pinjore (more on this below). The birds are still head drooping, but this seems to have lessened slightly...

Man-eating can be a genetic or acquired behaviour of tigers and usually a culprit individual can pass this ‘information that humans can be killed’ to its offsprings. However whether a tiger is a maneater or not can be confirmed, sadly, only after a series of events with some pattern. Ideally the culprit should be removed from the population as soon as possible, though it can take ages before getting the right individual. DNA of the tigers can be extracted from its saliva on the victims’ body if collected carefully. A systematic plan needs to be put in where the individual is identified before...

  This is high time for forest officers, villagers and nature lovers at Corbett. In a period of less than one week two ladies have been killed by tiger. In the first incident Smt. Nandi Devi w/o Shri Bhagi Ram resident of Sundarkhal village was attacked and killed on 12th of November. However, in the second incident Smt. Kalpana Devi w/0 Shri Prem Singh resident of Chukum village was attacked and killed by tiger on 18th of November.  The first incident took place at around 10.30 am on 12th November when Smt Nandi Devi was in the forest towards the Corbett’s buffer area to collect Kari patta...

On 27 and 28 November 2010, a community based conservation and angling workshop was held in Marchula, Bandran, hosted by the Himalayan Outback Camp (an angling lodged owned and operated by Mr. Misty Dhillon), and chaired by Mr. Sumantha Ghosh, the founder and president of Society for Mahseer Conservancy. The aim of the workshop was to discuss ways of saving revrine ecosystem and the species dependent on them (with a focus on the Ramganga River and the golden mahseer), and to discuss ways of promoting Uttarakhand as an angling destination. Workshop attendees included representatives of the Forest...

Anupma Khanna | Dehradun Religion and nature are one, both being delicate manifestations of the same God, it is said. However, it is not very often that one witnesses as powerful a show of the gospel as around the shrines abutting the Ramganga in Uttarakhand; where people’s absolute faith in Hinduism is saving a magnificent life form from getting wiped out forever. In what is remarkable, Hindu temples dotting the river in Pauri and Nainital have become isolated sanctuaries protecting the mighty, but threatened, golden mahseer from ruthless illegal fishing methods by the locals. Mahseer is a...