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What Draws City Dwellers to go on a Camping Trip Written by Arefa Tehsin | Updated: May 5, 2019 Photographs: Adityavikram More Open skies: The chance to experience solitude, even when enjoying the camaraderie of friends, is what attracts city dwellers to camping. (Photos: Adityavikram More) Coming from a family of naturalists and some of the... Continue Reading →
Living Among Lions By Arefa Tehsin Photos by Adityavikram More In Kenya, where the wild is nigh, and the head held high Caption: Sights and sounds: (From top) A cheetah mother with her young ones. (Photo: Adityavikram More)My introduction to Kenya was through two real-life stories — the man-eaters of Tsavo and my father’s Zanzibar-wale... Continue Reading →
The Elephant in the Room Worry not if someone equates you with animals. Here’s why you should wear it as a badge of honour. Written by Arefa Tehsin and Adityavikram More | New Delhi | Our culture has an arsenal of animal-related abuses, demeaning them. It should be the other way round. In a mega... Continue Reading →
The Jungle in Our Living Rooms BY ADITYAVIKRAM AND AREFA TEHSIN ON18/02/2018 Late last year, a video of a polar bear starving in the Canadian tundra left millions of viewers devastated. Whether it was a gritty reminder of the reality of climate disruption or – as others have written – a sign of disease, it was... Continue Reading →
YOUNG WORLD Not so PRETTY, mate AREFA TEHSIN Commons You may think they look “ugly”. But ask them, and they’ll tell you who really fits the bill. In the sub-Saharan Africa, there is a wild member of the pig family called warthog, which would make its domestic cousins look rather glamorous... Continue Reading →
Ugly, Am I? Part I By Arefa Tehsin If they are neither cute nor cuddly you wrinkle up your nose in disgust. But, these animals think well of themselves and don’t give a hoot about our opinions. We drool over the tall, dark and handsome, or the slanting doe... Continue Reading →
On the occasion of World Snake Day, my piece in TERI's TerraGreen
Deep SLEEP Arefa Tehsin HANG OUT: Time to rest. | Photo Credit: MAIL PIC Check out these animals as they grab a shut eye. Not all of them need a bed! "O bed! O bed! delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the weary head.” Thomas Hood rhymed in his cautionary tale of Miss Kilmansegg and... Continue Reading →
YOUNG WORLD LOVE them all! AREFA TEHSIN MARCH 03, 2017 00:00 IST Today is World Wildlife Day. A day for us to rally together and address ongoing major threats to wildlife including habitat change, over-exploitation or illicit trafficking. Baba Dioum, a Senegalese forestry engineer, summarized it to three simple lines, “For, in the end, we... Continue Reading →
CHILDREN Hit that SNOOZE button! Arefa Tehsin Time for a regal nap: Lions can sleep for 20 hours a day! Photo: P.V. Sivakumar | Photo Are you a victim of too little sleep or do you sleep way too much? Here’s a peek into the sleeping habits of the inhabitants of the animal... Continue Reading →
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