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The Lively Stream

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The Koi Fish Pond at Waterwoods have been a great Moment of Excitement for Kids, Teenagers and Adults alike when they seat by the edge of the pond and feed the fishes. It is a great Selfie point as well. Over the years, the Koi pond has developed an unique niche creating a balanced aquatic ecosystem all around it. To start with, we had a lot of algae development due to the shallow water and good availability sunlight. The same was eaten away by the Crayfishes which would also make sure that the water is always clean of any dead & decaying matter. A shole of local fishes of various species also share the same habitat and are in the process of getting a healthy heads up before they are released into the main river. Nevertheless, the same pool also attracts a variety of amphibians and reptiles which we don’t want to get into depth for obvious reasons. The main focus of writing this note is because of some visitors to this pond which weren’t expected or seen as ofte
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Dracaena sanderiana - My 'Lucky Bamboo'

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My Lucky Bamboo It's been more than 6 years (probably 2009) when I bought my first External Hard drive. Thanks to my friend Vishwa, for giving me the address of a shop in Mysore (Raja Sales) who gave the best deals for Computer peripherals purchases during that time. Since there was no options of Online shopping or Item delivery to various remote areas of India(Bandipur National Park in this case), I took a free ride on the Company vehicle which went for Weekly purchase to Mysore. I got 320GB External Hard Drive(the highest possible) along with some Blank CDs & DVDs at a good deal and was eager to return back quickly to try out the HDDrive. Just while exiting the shop, I found a shop opposite to Raja Sales having a lot of Decoration items. Though the items looked good, none of them had any life in them. I gave a quick round of the shop to see if I could find anything interesting and suddenly my eyes fell on a small set of Bamboos tied together and kept on water in a bowl.
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Wartime Indian butterflies

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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
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Trap Cage for Leopard

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

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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
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Increase in Tiger Numbers of India

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
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Tiger Sub-species around the World

TIGER SUB-SPECIES Earlier there were Nine subspecies of tiger, but human killing has left only six of them: Siberian (Amur) tigers : Panthera tigris altaica Siberian tigers hold the distinction of being the biggest of the world’s big cats. A typical male Amur tiger may weigh more than 250kg & measure nearly 3Mts from nose to tip of tail. They live along the forests of Amur River, a natural boundary line between Russia & China on the east coast. Amur tiger populations have been severely reduced by poaching, poaching of prey and habitat destruction. Only around 500 individuals exist in the world. Royal Bengal tigers : Panthera tigris tigris The Bengal tiger is most numerous of tigers in the wild today. It lives in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar (Burma) and Nepal, with India home to the biggest population. It mostly inhabits the deciduous forests of central and south India, the Terai-Duar grassland and Sal forests of the Himalayan foothills, and the Temperate forests
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