deepali pathak

nature enthusiast, all the pics are clicked by me

[Rohit Choudhury @Rohitskaziranga]

Mining is priority. Money is priority. Kaziranga is not priority? This is the fate of Parkup Pahar in Kaziranga’s catchment area, notwithstanding the orders of the Hon'ble Supreme Court and multiple communications from the CEC to protect it.@byadavbjp @jayanta_malla @assampolice

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

In the Banni grasslands of Gujarat, herds of up to 200 water buffalo let themselves out every evening, walk as far as 15 kilometres into the dark with nobody in charge, and are back at their own front door for milking at dawn.

Banni is about 2,500 square kilometres of flat, salty grassland on the edge of the Rann of Kutch. In summer it passes 45 degrees by day, which is no weather for a black animal the size of a small car. So the buffalo work nights.

The arrangement runs like this. The Maldharis, whose name simply means keepers of livestock, milk in the evening. The herd then forms up behind a lead female and leaves. They graze the cool hours, 8 to 10 kilometres out in the monsoon and up to 15 in the dry season, and at first light they turn round and come home. Each herd to its own hamlet. They very rarely get lost and they very rarely get mixed up with the neighbours', which is more than can be said for most airlines and your luggage.

No fence. No herdsman. No collar, no app, no drone. They are never tied up, even to be milked. They stand there and wait their turn.

In any other industry an asset that lets itself out, fuels itself for nothing, walks itself home and queues up to be unloaded is called full automation, and someone gives a talk about it in a headset.

On that, on grass that nobody planted or watered, a Banni buffalo gives 12 to 18 litres of milk a day. When the herders set up their own cooperative the price they were paid tripled, and the grassland now sends out something like 250,000 litres every morning. In 2010 India recognised the Banni as a breed in its own right, the first new buffalo breed registered since Independence, on an application the herders put together themselves.

They have held that ground for 500 years, since the rulers of Kutch granted it to them for grazing.

The modern state took one look at it and wrote down wasteland. In the 1960s the forestry department set about improving it with a thorn tree from Mexico. That tree now smothers more than half the grassland, and the locals call it the mad one.

The buffalo walk round it in the dark and are home by 6.

[Biswajit Mohanty,Ph.D #କଳିଙ୍ଗ ପୁତ୍ର @biswajitmohanty]

#RepatriateOrangutans
India should carry out a DNA test of the 5 orangutan babies rescued at Balasore, Odisha to trace the origin. After the quarantine and observation period is over steps can be taken under CITES to repatriate them to the country of origin. There are rescue facilities in Sumatra, Indonesia, etc which rear, train and rewild rescued orangutan babies.
The whole world would applaud India's commitment to stamp out international trafficking in endangered species if this can be done by @moefcc .
Pvt zoo operators would realise that they cannot acquire exotic species illegally and lock them up in captivity. Every wild animal has the right to live in their natural habitat and not be locked up in a zoo for life.
@PCCFWL_Odisha @ForestDeptt @byadavbjp @bahardutt @BittuSahgal @SanctuaryAsia @GaneshRamBJP @CMO_Odisha

[India Today NE @IndiaTodayNE]

#Assam: A female #elephant named Durga has been shifted from #Manas National Park in Assam to Kerala, prompting concerns among local nature lovers over the manner in which the animal was relocated.

Durga was reportedly moved from Mahal Camp under the Bansbari Range of the national park and transported to #Kerala on the night of September 7.

[Bahar Dutt @bahardutt]

No please it’s not the job of the #orangutans to educate people .. let them go back to their rightful habitat

[deepali pathak @ajdeeps]

Delhi University should treat safe affordable accommodation essential part of student welfare
¶Urgently increase hostel capacity in clgs
¶Create an official DU-verified PG/hostel accommodation portal
¶Set up dedicated grievance helpline fr accommodation issues
@UnivofDelhi

[Kanhaiya Kumar @kanhaiyakumar]

दिल्ली यूनिवर्सिटी के ज्यादातर कॉलेजों में हॉस्टल नहीं हैं, स्टूडेंट अपने खर्चे पर अमानवीय स्थिति में पीजी में रहने को मजबूर हैं।

कल ही मोदीजी डीयू में अपना पीआर कर रहे थे। शिक्षा और देश के शिक्षण संस्थानों पर एक शब्द नहीं बोले और आज दिल्ली यूनिवर्सिटी के साउथ कैंपस के पास एक पीजी की बिल्डिंग गिर जाने के कारण कई विद्यार्थियों की जान चली गई, कई घायल हैं और अभी तक मलबों में दबे हुए हैं।

आख़िर कब तक सरकार की लापरवाही और भ्रष्टाचार की क़ीमत विद्यार्थी अपनी जान गवाँ कर चुकाते रहेंगे।

जवाब तो देना पड़ेगा, जवाबदेही लेनी पड़ेगी।

[Umashankar Singh उमाशंकर सिंह @umashankarsingh]

ये नेपाल में आयी भयंकर प्राकृतिक आपदा नहीं है कि टनल के अंदर पहुँचने में तमाम कठिनाई आ रही हो, बल्कि देश की राजधानी दिल्ली में गिरी एक इमारत है। 20 घंटे बाद तक ये साफ़ तौर पर नहीं कहा जा रहा है कि अब अंदर कोई दबा नहीं है। सबको सुरक्षित निकालने की बात को छोड़िए! कुर्सी पर बैठे लोगों को शर्म तो आती नहीं है!

[कुंभकरण @_kumbhkaran]

दिल्ली में पिछले साल एक लाइब्रेरी में पानी भरने से चार छात्रों की मृत्यु हो गई थी, इस साल एक पीजी की छत गिरने से चार चार छात्रों की मृत्यु हो गई है। संख्या अभी और बढ़ भी सकती है। ऐसे ही लखनऊ की एक कोचिंग में आग लगने से कई लोगों की मृत्यु हो गई थी।

कोचिंग, लाइब्रेरी, पीजी या हॉस्टल ये सब ऐसी जगहे हैं जहां हमेशा एक साथ कई लोग रहते हैं और इसलिए इन जगहों की समय समय पर प्रॉपर जांच होती रहती है। दिल्ली में तो PG चलाने के लिए आपको तरह तरह के पेपर वर्क करने पड़ते होंगे, तमाम जांच होती होगी, फिर किसी को उस छत या बिल्डिंग की स्थिति के बारे में पता कैसे नहीं चला?

क्योंकि जो भी पेपर वर्क होना होता है, वह सब गांधी जी वाला पेपर देके करवा लिया जाता है, या फिर इनके owner किसी नेता के रिश्तेदार होते हैं या फिर बड़े अधिकारी के!!

खैर आप ऐसे ही जान देते रहिए, आपको तो ऐसे ही मरते रहना है, कहीं स्कूल की छत गिरने से मरेंगे, कहीं पुल गिरने से, कहीं पटरी से ट्रेन उतरने से, कहीं आग में झुलसकर तो कहीं नाले में गिरकर। क्योंकि इन सबके लिए जो नेता जिम्मेदार होते हैं उनमें आपको अपने बाप नजर आते हैं।

[खुरपेंच @khurpenchh]

>2024 में बेसमेंट में डूबने से बच्चे मर गए,
>उसी साल करंट लगने से बच्चे की मौत हो गयी
>कल फिर बिल्डिंग गिरने से छात्र मर गए
>कब तक ये लापरवाही चलती रहेगी?
>NOC कोई घटना घटने के बाद क्यूँ चेक होती, ये रूटीन वर्क क्यूँ नहीं है?
@gupta_rekha @MCD_Delhi @LtGovDelhi

[Reveal Facts @facts_reveal]

A PG building collapsed, and now they are claiming it was 50 to 60 years old while the owner is on the run. The reality is that 90% of PGs in Delhi have been running in even worse conditions then this, charging students 10000 to 15000 rupees a month for these death traps. Congress came to power, Arvind Kejriwal came, and now bjp for last 1 year, is anyone ever going to take real action against them ? or are they just waiting for the next building to collapse?

[deepali pathak @ajdeeps]

People are suffering with respiratory infections and non stop crackers are bursting in the area. 3 Wedding processions are going on and even after complaining to 112 the norms of GRAP3 are being violated openly in Noida sector 129.

#noidapolice #CAQM_Official @CMOfficeUP

[Prashant Bhushan @pbhushan1]

What an advertisement by MTV for our Republic Day!

[deepali pathak @ajdeeps]

@szarabi Amidst this circus, it would be better to exempt the vehicles with PUC from GRAP restrictions. Rest restrictions may remain as it is. Otherwise this whole scenario is face saving by authorities only. @CAQM_Official @PMO

[deepali pathak @ajdeeps]

India is not for beginners

'When life gives you Cold.....chill karo'

Somewhere in UP

#india #indiaisnitforbeginners #coldwave #UttarPradesh

[deepali pathak @ajdeeps]

@vivek4wild @incognito9 @atulMbhatnagar @mharshaips @chandanaroy24 @deespeak @wti_org_india @SoIB_India @indian_pitta @PATRICI55845750 @OrnithophileI Shiny neck band in rufous bellied niltava.

[Prerna Singh Bindra PhD 🐘🐅🐾 @prernabindra]

Saving #tigers? by submerging, blasting destroying the heart of a #tiger reserve?
#Panna, A tiger reserve painstakingly revived after all its tigers went #extinct in 2009. Home to the almost-extinct #caracal & the smallest wild cat-the rusty spotted cat.Nearly 90 sq km of prime natural forests cleared. felled, destoryed. 23 L trees to be cut.
If #India claims to save tiger, indeed by a world leader in tiger conservation, this project must stop.

Terrible news to wake upto on #Christmas2024 . 'News' channels going gaga over the #UN 'Champion of the Earth Award' winning PM inaugurating the #kenbetwaproject which will drown & destroy #Panna #Tigerreserve. Drown the gorgeous #Ken gorge, nesting site of critically #endangered long billed #vultures.
The #kenbetwaproject lacks a robust environmental, social, biodiversity impact study, is shrouded in secrecy. The notion that the #river Ken has surplus water has been crtiqued by hydrologists. On my visit there, there was a lot of anger among farmers/people served by Ken, they themselves water starved.

Read my chapter on Panna in my book #TheVanishing
& this by @Indian_Rivers
https://t.co/QOemL2WWjb

[deepali pathak @ajdeeps]

@navinajafa @anuradhamathur @Akiliense @pargaien @incognito9 @Ramu_Damodaran And this Crimson sunbird is feeding on the cocoon of spittlebug.
Location Assam, India

[Abijit Ganguly @AbijitG]

There is a genuine scamming menace and the police or government just don't seem to care. It's not normal that daily we are getting calls of impersonators and we just ignore it. Imagine if daily we would be facing mugging attempts on the street, because it's just that, a crime attempt which we managed to avoid.
Yesterday within an hour two people in my circle experienced a phone hacking scam and a parcel scam. The narrative is all about 'satark rahiye' and what not putting the onus on individuals rather than doing something about it. At this point it feels like we are on our own.