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Why the Knuckles Mountain Range is one of Sri Lanka’s most difficult hikes With cloud forests, grasslands and semi-evergreen rain forests, it has the climatic microcosm of the rest of the island. Written by Arefa Tehsin | New Delhi | Updated: February 2, 2020 Photographs by Adityavikram More One of the most difficult hikes... Continue Reading →
The Indian Express: Nature Deficit Disorder: How to connect children to the great outdoors Wilderness has magic. Unlike TV and video games, where you can only hear and see, forests are where you have a sensational experience. Firsthand encounters with the wild can transform a child’s outlook. Kids would love a trip to the zoo. (Source:... Continue Reading →
World Turtle Day: How turtles are different from tortoises and other facts It is quite easy to tell them apart just by looking at their limbs from a distance. Turtles have webbed feet and tortoises have firm, rounded feet. Turtles have been around for nearly 220 million years. (Source: File photo) World Turtle Day: Turtles... Continue Reading →
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
Arefa Tehsin 