ReadingNature

Talking books 📚 and other writing, on nature, wildlife 🐾. Bookish discussions, some recommendations - all month long. Hosted by @prernabindra & @vaishalirawat

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On #InternationalTigerDay, we'd love to hear about your favourite books that feature this majestic animal🐯

Fiction, memoirs, natural history... We want to hear it all🐾
Tweet below - and do share a📸of your copy if possible!

Here's one we are particularly partial to:

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@SejalMehta06 @bijal_v @thetoonguy ^ 🤣Going to share this insight with anyone wondering how to start writing a book about tigers :D

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On #InternationalTigerDay, we'd love to hear about your favourite books that feature this majestic animal🐯

Fiction, memoirs, natural history... We want to hear it all🐾
Tweet below - and do share a📸of your copy if possible!

Here's one we are particularly partial to:

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@bijal_v @SejalMehta06 @thetoonguy

[Jyotsna @just_jyo]

@ReadingNature Jim Corbett's works. The tiger always treated with respect.

[Sagarika Phalke @sagarika1312]

@ReadingNature Billy Arjan Singhs books on Tara!

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@SejalMehta06 @prernabindra How could Calvin and Hobbes ever be off subject ;)

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https://t.co/EGLLf6yTB2

[Ali Nasrallah Sinwar’s Olive Tree 🔻⭕️🟥 @HakawatiSunbird]

@VaishaliRawat @ReadingNature The last tiger book I read was Dr. Raghu Chundawat’s
The Rise and Fall of the Emerald Tigers: Ten Years of Research in Panna National Park
It is an amazing account of his research over the course of decades and also how admin and bureacratic apathy rots Indian conservation. 👌🏻

[Ali Nasrallah Sinwar’s Olive Tree 🔻⭕️🟥 @HakawatiSunbird]

@VaishaliRawat @ReadingNature The last tiger book I read was Dr. Raghu Chundawat’s
The Rise and Fall of the Emerald Tigers: Ten Years of Research in Panna National Park
It is an amazing account of his research over the course of decades and also how admin and bureacratic apathy rots Indian conservation. 👌🏻

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@bijal_v this one touches my soul. Authoe spent months in a hideout in -30 C cooped in a tiny bunker surviving on frozen rice balls so the #tigers would not discern his presence and get nervous or disturbed, and he could observe them as their wild, natural selves.
#GlobalTigerDay

[Bijal Vachharajani @bijal_v]

@ReadingNature And of course @SejalMehta06 and @thetoonguy's Watch Out! The Tiger is Here. https://t.co/F6ewYYfYzr

[Bijal Vachharajani @bijal_v]

@ReadingNature A long-ago listicle.

https://t.co/HQk0xeDMGm

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Our letter critiquing the #EIA2020 - endorsed by 100+ experts & citizens - & a shorter template have been translated to 10 vernacular languages inc. Urdu, Bengali, Odia by very committed volunteers.
We encourage wide circulation so more are empowered to join the movement!
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Things have been a little silent around here... but only because we've been a little busy wearing our campaigning hats lately!
You might have heard of the #EIA2020Draft notification... Have you sent your comments to the environment ministry yet? 👇
https://t.co/52VoxKAfBV

[Ramesh Pandey @rameshpandeyifs]

If you live in cities and want to come close to the trees around, these two books could be of great help. Trees of Delhi is a field guide identify trees, however Cities and Canopies also offers stories attached to them.
#books #trees #nature
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Today's #NaturePick is your feel-good read of the day, set in the heart of India's #Kanha forests, from the lovely
@SejalMehta06.
Think women, #wildlife, #safaris, and #tigers!🐯🐾🌳

[NatGeoTravellerIndia @NGTIndia]

23-year-old Madhuri Thakur is one of the two women taking the driver's seat at #KanhaNationalPark. @SejalMehta06 pens the inspirational tale of the safari driver who has come a long way from tackling tough terrains and stereotypes. #Wildlife

https://t.co/1YsSaWO6cg

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This week's #NaturePick - and we really couldn't recommend it more - Douglas Adams' 'Last Chance to See'!
Full of hilarious bits like this one, and equally powerful heartfelt odes to the many rare species of wildlife... a masterclass in nature writing, this one ✍️🦏🐬
#towelday

[Vaishali Rawat @bone_folde4n8b]

It's #TowelDay today, a day of remembering one of my all time fav. authors #DouglasAdams and my yearly shout for you to read his hilarious,poignant book 'Last Chance to See' about species on the brink of extinction
Tipped my hat at Highgate Cemetery, London, earlier this year. ✒️

[prerna singh bindra 🐘🐅🐾 @prernabindra]

Our newly minted #NatureBookClub @ReadingNature had an exciting, insightful discussion around the #book of the month (decade?) #Spillover anchored by the brilliant @VaishaliRawat AND @DavidQuammen responded!! We are thrilled, thanks Sir-& all u wonderful readers 📚 V r on a roll

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~V

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Welcome to our first-ever virtual book-club meeting at @ReadingNature! Thank you all for joining us for this afternoon chat :D
Our book of the month (year?!) is #Spillover - Animal infections and the next human pandemic. Let's begin in the thread below.

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@anishafishtoe @PaulMridula @akshaysurendr @SejalMehta06 @PCprapti @aathiperinchery @AdityaPanda @vjjan91 And my last discussion-tangent for the day, this little coronavirus warning... (this book was published in 2012)

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But when have humans paid heed to warnings? Would we knowing the disruption a #virus can cause stopped waltzing down the merry path of destruction?
Nah, Its biz as usual even when slapped in the face by #CoronaVirus.
Here is @DavidQuammen advises in the @Orion_Magazine 1/3

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@anishafishtoe @PaulMridula @akshaysurendr @SejalMehta06 @PCprapti @aathiperinchery @AdityaPanda @vjjan91 And my last discussion-tangent for the day, this little coronavirus warning... (this book was published in 2012)

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knock it over with a bulldozer and #viruses will rise in the air like dust.Leave bats, in particular, the hell alone."(love this)
that's the inimitable @DavidQuammen thanks for that fascinating read #SpillOver We are besides ourselves at hearing from you in our inagural session😀