Last and final call
I adore frogs. All frogs, not just this exquisite Western Ghats Rhacophorus photographed by Sunil Sachi in a Chikmagalur coffee plantation.
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Going Green
Hunger games
That chippy sound I’m hearing right now outside our ground-floor Mumbai home? It’s a Purple Sunbird doing what it does best… stealing nectar from flowers.
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What a wonderful world!
One of Mumbai’s inveterate naturalists, Yogesh Chavan, found 42 exquisitely arranged salmon Arab butterfly caterpillars on a single meswak leaf.
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Join the fight against plastic pollution!
Every year, we throw away enough plastic to circle the Earth four times. Much of that waste ends up in our oceans, where it’s responsible for killing 1 million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals every year.
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In our hands
The hand on this page belongs to a lion-tailed macaque Macaca silenus, found nowhere else but India’s Western Ghats. Handsome beyond description, this monkey from Valparai has much more going for it than mere good looks.
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