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In Pics: Search For The Elusive Snow Leopard In Ladakh
With the snow leopard getting on everyone's bucket list these days and the mountains anyway being a huge draw, the local people of Ladakh now get to organise home stays which also earns them some steady and extra income
Why Elephants Should Be Freed From A Life Of Captivity
In India, there are about 3000 to 3500 captive elephants, which are deprived of their natural environment, often isolated in the alien world of human behaviours and practices. Chained up almost for the entire time of their captivity, these elephants are prone to develop symptoms of trauma and need specific care. Here are a few pictures showcasing the life of captive elephants.
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Swati Thiyagarajan, Environment Editor
Born wild is the first long running series on wildlife and conservation on a news channel.
Swati Thiyagarajan has won two Ramnath Goenka Awards for excellence in environment journalism, the Carl Zeiss award for contributing toward tiger conservation amongst others.
Apart from the awards, she was also invited to be a jury member at WildScreen Festival in England, the largest wildlife festival in the world. Her film The Animal Communicator has over 5 million hits on YouTube and she has just completed a book on her television series.
The book is titled Born Wild and is being published in June 2017 by Bloomsbury India.
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