Dipankar Borah

In a complicated relationship with Plants 😊

[Publications MNHN 🐝 @Publi_MNHN]

[#Adansonia] Peliosanthes maheswariana D.Borah, N.Tanaka & Taram, sp. nov. (Asparagaceae), from Arunachal Pradesh, NE India, and P. sinica new to 🇮🇳

✒️ @DDB_Botanist et al.
🔗 https://t.co/YWw5Nsb3uq
#Asparagaceae #flora #plantgeography #NewSpecies #IAmABotanist #botanist

[Dipankar Borah @DDB_Botanist]

@ranojpeguassam @himantabiswa Respected Honorable CMO Assam and EMO, I wish to bring to your attention that the appointment you offered to me on May 25, 2023, for Assistant Professor position at Kaliabor College has been unjustly withdrawn, despite no fault of my own. I humbly seek justice in this matter.

[Dipankar Borah @DDB_Botanist]

Respected Honorable Chief Minister of Assam, I wish to bring to your attention that the appointment offered to me by you on May 25, 2023, for the Asst. Prof. has been unjustly withdrawn, despite no fault of mine. I humbly seek justice. @himantabiswa @ranojpeguassam

[Emmanuel Côtez @La_REC]

[#Adansonia] #Peliosanthes maheswariana D.Borah, N.Tanaka & Taram, sp. nov. (#Asparagaceae), from Arunachal Pradesh, NE India, and P. sinica new to India
✒️ Dipankar BORAH (@DDB_Botanist ), Momang TARAM & Noriyuki TANAKA
🔗 https://t.co/eKidTJbW8S
#newspecies #botany #botanist

[Dipankar Borah @DDB_Botanist]

@La_REC @Le_Museum @MNHN_recherche @BJP4Arunachal @Publi_MNHN Thanks Emanuel for all your support.

[Dipankar Borah @DDB_Botanist]

Another dead in Goalpara, Assam. A case of poisoning. 12 deaths within 10 days. Still to act and react @CMOfficeAssam @NatGeo @IUCN_forests @moefcc
https://t.co/DyohAbYjEq.

[Dipankar Borah @DDB_Botanist]

Heritage animal in crisis ! Assam's failure to protect its pride. Record death of eleven endangered Asian Elephants in a week !

[Dipankar Borah @DDB_Botanist]

@ArtsciStudios Astounding.

[artsci studios @ArtsciStudios]

Presenting "Fruit of the Womb: The Botanical Classification of Fruit". This was a fun piece I made after a dinnertime conversation about why a tomato is technically a fruit.
#fruit #botany #botanicalillustration #scientificart #sciart #illustration #art #plant #floralart #biology

[Land Conflict Watch @LandConflicts]

Here’s a story: The inhabitants of Loktak lake – among India’s largest freshwater lakes, home to lakhs of people, mostly from the indigenous Meitei community – have been directed by the government to remove their homestays within 15 days, or they will be destroyed. #Thread

[Let India Breathe || #StandWithManipur|| @LetIndBreathe]

🚨 CODE RED for Maharashtra’s food bowl!!

Results of a citizen-led study to ascertain air quality in Dahanu reveal high levels of air pollution in Dahanu.

Thermal power stations and industrial clusters threaten the eco-fragile area.

#AirPollution #mumbai #FoodSecurity

[Raymond Kharmujai @RKharmujai]

Elephants loaded in trucks most of them registered in Rajasthan were held held by Adisu youth volunteers at Arunachal Pradesh’s Pasighat Town around 1pm last night. 2 Fortunners were escorting the truck cavalcade. @ParveenKaswan @elephantjournal @wildlifeindia1 @CSEINDIA

[Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh @TheBotanics]

The world’s biggest begonia! RBGE scientists over in Sao Tome have found the extraordinary plant Begonia baccata.

[Let India Breathe || #StandWithManipur|| @LetIndBreathe]

Really want to #SaveSoil ?

170000 hectares of India’s densest forest are in danger!

Message us to know more.✉️

P.S.: That is 2.5 times the size of Singapore. Almost.

[Mongabay India @MongabayIndia]

Community led #conservation efforts in certain pockets in #Assam is helping the golden langur, one of the endangered primate species, increase its population. Read this story by @roopak1966 to know how!

#ConservationSuccess #Biodiversity #Wildlife https://t.co/xdYlBY6CPF

[Change.org India @ChangeOrg_India]

"After being taken for treatment in State Zoo, Guwahati, he died the very next day as he was unable to ingest food." Sign this petition to protect and conserve the last left gibbons.
https://t.co/DrD8wVkUct
@apdclsocial @Dipannitasharma @_AdilHussain @PoojaB1972 @ParimalSuklaba1

[Juheb Hussain @JuhebH]

We demand immediate release of Lawyer/Activist Ebo Milli and Artist Neelim Mahanta.

The proposed #EtalinHydroProject is just one of 17 dams proposed on the rivers of Dibang Valley. The most notable of these is the already approved 2880 MW #DibangMultipurposeProject (DMP) – the

[इन्दीवर स्टार्क 🪷 @righteous_monk_]

BLACK DAY FOR VULTURE CONSERVATION💔💔

Residents of chhaygaon (assam) wanted to kill stray dogs so they poisoned animal carcasses with pesticides (carbofuran) but what happened after that is way more heartbreaking, cruel and tragic

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[Annales Botanici Fennici @annbotfenn]

Now available at https://t.co/vwtrm6vPkD: Yama L., Borah D. & Singh R.K. 2022: Staurogyne arunachalensis (Acanthaceae), a new species from Arunachal Pradesh, India

[roopakgoswami @roopak1966]

20 wetlands spread over an area of 323 hectares have disappeared while 226 new wetlands spread over an area of 3792 hectares have come up in Assam from 2006-07 to 2018-19. #wetlands #Assam