What Can You Do Help the Poor Bustard? Designate well-protected core breeding areas, where the bustards’ ecological needs are factored in with low-intensity livelihood concerns Enlist support of local communities and all the relevant departments Conserve grasslands. Curtail detrimental infrastructure and other projects in GIB priority areas. Policy changes regarding land use and prioritisation of […]
By Maneka Gandhi If you meditate properly, over a period of time you can develop parts of your brain to do things that normal people can’t do: see amazing colors, listen to ethereal music, travel to different places while your body remains here, tolerate extreme heat and cold, live in underground chambers with very little […]
By Richard Conniff/ NYT One of the odder things about perfumes is how much they have depended over the centuries on the scent of other animals — for instance, ambergris, a fatty excretion of the sperm whale, or the musk from the anal sacs of a civet. In concentration, some of these scents are unpleasant, even […]
In this civilized age, a most vicious and cruel spectacle of blood continues to flourish in Spain and other countries. Bullfighting is barbaric and should have been banned long ago. It is difficult to understand how crowds of people will pay money and take pleasure in watching one lone creature, who has never done them […]
Across Pakistan, we can see dogs with gaping head wounds inflicted by people who consider it normal behavior to stone feral canines. Donkeys and other beasts of burden are beaten mercilessly, and even pet animals are sometimes subjected to the harshest of treatment. But the savagery doesn’t end there. Zoos are supposed to be a […]