Book Excerpt: The Tigers Who Press Faces To Mine For A Kiss

Book Excerpts | Swati Thiyagarajan | Wednesday August 26, 2020

Exclusive excerpt from 'Born Wild: Journeys into the Wild Hearts of India and Africa' by Swati Thiyagarajan

Blog: When A Pregnant Elephant Dies After Days In Agony

Blog | Swati Thiyagarajan | Friday June 5, 2020

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.

Blog: India's Great News For The World - More Tigers

Blog | Swati Thiyagarajan | Monday July 29, 2019

The tiger as an umbrella species stands as the symbol of protection of our ecological future.

Blog: The Cruel, Unnecessary Death Of A Beautiful Whale Looks Like This

Blog | Swati Thiyagarajan | Thursday June 13, 2019

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.

Blog: Viral Video Of Indian Elephants' "Funeral Procession" For Calf

Blog | Swati Thiyagarajan | Tuesday June 11, 2019

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.

Blog: Our Inhumane Practices For Elephants Cause Deaths Like This

Blog | Swati Thiyagarajan | Monday December 17, 2018

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.

Blog: All You Should Know About That Big Climate Meet, COP 24

Blog | Swati Thiyagarajan | Tuesday December 4, 2018

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.

Blog: The Killing Of An American Missionary By Andaman Tribe

Blog | Swati Thiyagarajan | Saturday November 24, 2018

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.

Blog: With New Tiger Death, Odisha Proves It Has Learnt Nothing

Blog | Swati Thiyagarajan | Saturday November 17, 2018

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.

Blog: Tigress Avni Shot Dead, Many Unanswered Questions

Blog | Swati Thiyagarajan | Saturday November 3, 2018

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 ...

As Hunt For Avni The Tigress Grows, Her Future Is Already Over

India News | Written by Swati Thiyagarajan | Tuesday October 16, 2018

Officially, she is T1, a deadly tigress weighing about 300 pounds believed responsible for 13 deaths over the last 2 years as she prowls through the forests of Yavatmal in Maharashtra. But to people who want to save her, she is Avni, meaning The Earth.

Vaccine Drive To Save Gir's Lions Raises Questions

India News | Reported by Swati Thiyagarajan, Edited by Anuj Pant | Monday October 8, 2018

Gujarat forest officials have begun vaccinating lions in the Gir sanctuary after the sudden death of around 23 lions in the past three weeks because of the deadly Canine Distemper Virus or CDV.

Blog: The Shocking, Tragic Deaths Of 13 Gir Lions

Blog | Swati Thiyagarajan | Friday September 28, 2018

Lion fights are messy and injuries to their bodies would be immediately obvious. So it begs the question of why there are no definitive answers for the deaths when infighting is the main explanation given by the forest department. The department has admitted to the presence of an infection in the liver and lungs of some of the lions in their press ...

Blog: What The Thai Boys' Rescue Says About All Of Us

Blog | Swati Thiyagarajan | Thursday July 12, 2018

And what we have found, if we can just hold onto it, is that part of us that works with community, the part that puts someone else ahead of ourselves, the part that gives while asking nothing in return. It can change the world in the doing.

Blog: Why Delhi Will Have No Water At All In 2020

Blog | Swati Thiyagarajan | Monday June 25, 2018

This is not the moment to not know what we have lost till it's gone. This is the moment to do something.