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I am honoured to post some photos taken by Mr. Richard of 'Butterflies' collected by his Grand father Mr. Lewis Gray during World War-II. The mail below from Ms. Hilary Ash is self explainatory. My apologies for any mistaken identity. Regards, Sukanta Striped Tiger- Danaus genutia Small Grass Yellow - ( Eurema brigitta ) Plain Tiger- Danaus chrysippus Baronet - Euthalia nais Common Crow - Euploea core Common Emigrant- Catopsilia crocale Common Jay - Graphium doson Common Jezebel- Delias eucharis Crimson Rose- Pachliopta hector Eggfly- Hypolimnas bolina ( Dear Mr Das The English summer, such as it was, has ended, so I am trying to catch up oncontacts and e-mails. Thank you for sending the article about your work - Ihave passed it round the committee. Some of the artworks are going soon, sowe will have a suitable space to try the salt-lick. No-one seems to know ifBritish butterflies have the same habit! I mentioned to you that my father, Lewis Gray, was in India and Burma duringt

Trap Cage preparation for catching Leopard in The Serai Resorts vicinity.

As the Climate suggests, it is raining at regular intervals in Kabini which has had a direct impact on occupancy at our resort. Yet there is a set of clienteles who visit our resort every three months to experience the Forest in all its colours. We are four Naturalists here at Kabini and are having the much awaited free time of the year when we can go for Nature-walks around the Resort all by ourselves. As a part of our Eco-Tourism Project, the staffs consist of 90% locales and accompany us on such Walks, helping us in noticing minute interesting features of Nature. They provide us with a first hand knowledge of the Local culture & history too. It’s been long since we thought of putting up a write-up which will help our guests and nature enthusiasts to get some preliminary information of what they can look for while on a Nature-walk or Safari during this part of the year. This time we were able to put some words and pictures together which I would like to share with everybody. Kabi

The latest numbers of wild tigers in India has just been announced , and as usual there are views and counter views . The good news is that there is an increase compared to the last census.This is an attempt to try and make some sense of the debate. I compiling a series of links in one place so that you can go through all of them to try and make some sense of the whole thing and come to an informed decision. The first link announcing the upcoming good news. http://www.indianexpress.com/news/tiger-census-brings-10-cheer/767588/ A critique of the entire census process. http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/nation/how-they-count-our-tigers A link to an excellent discussion by various experts on the entire exercise.(there is a 30 sec. commercial followed by the actual programme - rather long but a must watch ) http://www.ndtv.com/video/player/news/tiger-census-295-tigers-added-population-estimated-at-1706/194831 Dr.Ullas Karanth's response. RESPONSE TO THE NATIONAL TIGER ESTIMATION RE