Swati Thiyagarajan
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Blog: Dog Lover Or Not, Here's What You Should Know
I absolutely love dogs, but I absolutely believe that with great love comes great responsibility.
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Blog: As 8 Cheetahs Arrive In India, Here's What To Expect
Experts on both sides are involved in this reintroduction and the animals will be very closely monitored and every opportunity will be made possible for the success of the programme, but ultimately it comes down to the animals themselves.
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Blog: Leon Was A Miracle. Today, We Put Him To Sleep
I had such a good life with him in it, he gave me so much love and I had the best time as a human because he shared himself with me.
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Blog: Our Film 'My Octopus Teacher' Just Won A BAFTA
When the announcement came that we had won, it was an impossible moment of sheer excitement and disbelief and elation.
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Blog: Avni The Tigress Was Shot Dead. Supreme Court Says Rules Were Followed
A contempt petition filed in the Supreme Court by animal rights activist Sunita Dongre was withdrawn by her after the court declared it invalid today and stated that the killing of tigress Avni was carried out as per court orders as she was a maneater.
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Book Excerpt: The Tigers Who Press Faces To Mine For A Kiss
Exclusive excerpt from 'Born Wild: Journeys into the Wild Hearts of India and Africa' by Swati Thiyagarajan
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Blog: When A Pregnant Elephant Dies After Days In Agony
A pregnant elephant dies after eating a pineapple loaded with firecrackers. It's an agonizing death. She stands for days in water with her head submerged, trying to cool her hurt mouth; ultimately, she drowns.
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Blog: India's Great News For The World - More Tigers
The tiger as an umbrella species stands as the symbol of protection of our ecological future.
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Blog: The Cruel, Unnecessary Death Of A Beautiful Whale Looks Like This
If you are caught harassing a whale, you can be fined up to 18 lakh rupees. However, it seems if you kill them with a fishery, it costs you nothing.
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Blog: Viral Video Of Indian Elephants' "Funeral Procession" For Calf
Perhaps what this recent video can teach us is to stop only seeing ourselves and our issues as the centre of the world and understand that everyone of us shares a space with every other non human animal on this the living planet.
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Blog: Our Inhumane Practices For Elephants Cause Deaths Like This
If longer term solutions that fit with elephant ecology and local people needs are not worked out, this conflict is only going to get worse.
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Blog: All You Should Know About That Big Climate Meet, COP 24
We are living on the borrowed future of coming generations and the poorest of our poor. Perhaps COP 24 could be the first step forward in changing this.
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Blog: The Killing Of An American Missionary By Andaman Tribe
It is essential to recognise not just the right but the need to leave indigenous people alone, to not literally invade their space. Let us stick to boundaries and respect them.
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Blog: With New Tiger Death, Odisha Proves It Has Learnt Nothing
Three days ago, the Odisha Forest department announced that the three-year-old tiger brought all the way to the Satkosia Tiger Reserve from the Kanha national park in Madhya Pradesh, a distance of 600 kms, had died three months after completing the journey. The tiger designated as T1 was publicly known as Mahaveer.
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Blog: Tigress Avni Shot Dead, Many Unanswered Questions
The death of a tigress in her prime is always a tragedy, no matter the circumstances that surround it. T1, popularly known as Avni, was shot dead at 11.35 pm on Friday night. In the bigger picture, as I wrote earlier ((hyperlink to earlier piece)), T1 shot or captured alive was dead to conservation goals the day she was marked for removal from the ...
