did you say animals have no feelings?

Who was it who questions that animals have no feelings, feel no pain..no grief? In the train tragedy which mowed down seven elephants, the herd was trying to free two calves trapped in the line. it wasn't just the mother..all the elephants in the herd were making desperate efforts, collectively, to save the young, and lost their lives, brutally killed in the process. Next day, a huge herd of 30-50 elephants revisited the site of the tragedy..they were restless, calling, trumpeting, uprooting nearby bushes and trees, halting the traffic..

the future of the tigers rests on politics

The tigers don't know it, nor do the elephants, those magnificently intelligent creatures--that so much of their survival depends on who walks the corridors of power in delhi. On whether the man in the hot seat will help protect them-or themselves. On whether he saves their home--forests, or sells it. Conservation is all about politics. and politics rarely cares about conservation--for its not about governance and vision-but about greed and votes and power. Exceptions to the rule, that rare political animal who works, please excuse

Tiger-eating men

No of people killed by sharks every year: Approx 20
Number of sharks killed by men for shark fin soup: Conservative estimate: 70 million
some shark species have gone extinct, many are on the verge of extinction.
No people killed by tigers each year: about 60.
three of the eight sub-species have gone extinct, two are on the verge of extinction..and the remaining are critically endangered. Because we have destroyed their home-forests, and also because we eat tiger penis soup and drink tiger bone wine
so, did we say man-eating tigers, or is tiger-eating men
Did you say killer sharks, or should it be killer-men.
think about it

'Man-eaters'

People: Please stop using 'man-eater on the prowl', 'killer on a rampage', when describing a fatal conflict situation. If you persist, next time you talk of your car, that energy-guzzling, toxic-spewing machine u so love, you may please use the same terminology--as a genre it kills far, far more people-thousand times over than tigers or elephants or leopard or sharks--or all of them put together.

i know just what's needed to lift the spirits: A brand new wardrobe. A voucher for a book store (note i didn't say diamonds, my demands are few). And wildlife watching-pure and simple-unadulterated by knowledge of threats looming over.