Sonakshi Srivastava

I like animals
Previously @evpcambodia
@oxfordgeography graduate
Forest Rights Policy Advocacy @TISSpeak
Doing a PhD on India's Project Cheetah

[Yasmin Nair (One Tenacious B.) @NairYasmin]

My dearest hope, in all the current upheaval around the UK prime ministership is that someone, somehow, will forget about the Kohinoor and it will fall into my soft, pretty little hands.

[Pankaj Sekhsaria @pankajsekh]

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[Sonakshi Srivastava @doghog07]

So excited to read!

[Nayanika Mathur @NayanikaM]

New open access article on crooked beasts, comparison, ethnography, and how uncertainty can act as a productive form of knowledge-making to capture the climate crisis is now out in @Critical_Times_ https://t.co/AgOqbnIpOq

[Sonakshi Srivastava @doghog07]

@gaurravbhrdwj Ahh okay, thank you!

[Sonakshi Srivastava @doghog07]

@krish_bohra One of my friends found a physical copy. I can ask her to scan sections if you are looking for specific sections. Asking her to scan the whole book might be harder :)

[Sonakshi Srivastava @doghog07]

Please nobody is “locking eyes with the tiger” through “curated bush dining, plunge pool glamping, and drinks at multi-level sundecks.”
Are we fully going to stop pretending and lean into the inane masculine nonsense of the wildlife world?

[Gana Kedlaya @Eletell]

The New Indian Male Fantasy Involves Tigers, Not Nightclubs. @esquire_india sexist take on safaris -
Apparently psychology explains the trend shift: men bond best shoulder to shoulder through shared experiences, rather than face to face
What nonsense 🤮
https://t.co/KY7jRQbc69

[Down To Earth @down2earthindia]

India’s big cat conservation story has drawn global attention. But success now brings new challenges.

@RaviChellam3 argues that the push to keep adding tiger reserves, and the obsession with “fortress conservation”, are not rooted in science or in India’s social, political and cultural realities.

With many tigers, lions and leopards living outside protected areas, India must recognise coexistence, protect habitats and make local communities partners in conservation.

https://t.co/0tBP1QbFl8

[Mitul Baruah @Majuli_Chapori]

It’s really high time that #Gujarat shared its “pride” with others! The Asiatic Lion should be provided a second home, if we don’t want to risk its extinction.

[Sonakshi Srivastava @doghog07]

@krish_bohra Hmm. There hasn’t been a single case of effective relocation from any TR across India. There is always coercion or violence involved. It is really hard to see the situation as a win for people. Violent relocations in Amrabad are ongoing, none of the mandates are being followed.

[Sonakshi Srivastava @doghog07]

@krish_bohra The context is ofc different but this book is a great read on the colonial framing of animals, especially wolves, as vermin! I see lots of parallels between this and British Raj’s treatment of dholes and grey wolves.

[Nitin Sethi @nit_set]

As someone who has been a student of the history and politics of wildlife conservation, I find this article by Mukund Srinivasan a brilliant way to read a legend's legacy, using a frame grounded in science, history and ethics, underpinned by well researched work on how western notions of conservation were (and often today are) more about aesthetic and beauty than conservation science and only use(d) the language of 'science' to erase people's rights over their resources in many parts of the global South.

One need not blame or jusge the legend for not rising above the perversity that prevailed in his world and domain at his time to instead becoming its global face. But one must acknowledge it so that we do better in future.

[Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar]

5 May 2025 was historic. Jenu Kurubas reclaimed lands they were evicted from when Nagarahole national park was created. A year on, they continue living here while their claims under Forest Rights Act go through rejections & delays.

Karadikallu, the sacred hill where bears live.

[B.M. @ireallyhateyou]

A moment of appreciation to the black goats of Palestine. The mortal enemies of Zionism.

[Dr. Ghada Sasa, PhD 🇵🇸 @drghadasasa]

I just read the new Haaretz article about how Israeli planted pines are suddenly dying en masse and it is absolutely worth dissecting. Here are a summary & my observations as a Palestinian scholar who writes on green colonialism. 1/

[caxhole @caxholee]

“i wish children would be temporarily elevated to the skies until the war ends
then they would return home safe
and when their parents would ask them,
where were you? they would say,
we were playing in the clouds” - ghassan kanafani, a palestinian poet

[sara yasin @sarayasin]

I will try not to be too annoying about this, but if you can afford it, please subscribe to the Key. I'd really love to be able to keep the $2 tier.

(and if you can't afford it, please write to me and I'll give you a free subscription - [email protected])
https://t.co/pWzeMt0PKp

[MOgada @m_ogada]

@NuriaStore Success comes from character. Almost 10 years ago, @MbariawaMbaria and I launched "The Big Conservation Lie". We were bullied, threatened and ostracised. The ONLY BOOKSHOP in Kenya brave enough to stock it was NURIA. ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾

[Joe Athialy @joeathialy]

A very touching piece by Sudha Bharadwaj.

In addition to state harassment and surveillance, political prisoners who managed to get bail carry stringent conditions like in the recent case of Natasha and others. They cannot 'make or publish or disseminate any information, statement, article or post whether in print, electronic or social media concerning the present case or its participants till conclusion of the trial.'

The state would not have been so regressive, if we had a judiciary who valued law and human rights.

https://t.co/C3bLwvWyGt

[Nitin Sethi @nit_set]

Very few ecologist will have such a strong imprint on public discourse as Madhav Gadgil did. His attempt to find ecological security for the country through science and people is rare. I critiqued, what i believe, was one misstep he took. But he was a giant who took the subject with leaps in the right direction.