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What’s on your plate?

Meena Raghunathan

Did you think biodiversity was restricted to the flora and fauna? The food that we eat is also part of biodiversity. Learn something new today about biodiversity in food through the activities in this article.

A walk in the city woods

Katie Bagli

It is the little things in life that give us pleasure. Read the experiences of this group of tree lovers who have learnt a lot about trees from their regular tree walks in their city.

Under rocks, between leaves

Gowri Shankar and Sharmila

What a lot nature can teach us, if only we care to listen and learn? Here are some tips and suggestions on what and how you can learn from nature.

All in the names

Nitya S Ghotge

India is a country that has a rich variety of domesticated livestock. But these indegenous breeds that have been serving us for centuries are now threatned with the inclusion of foreign animal breeds to satisfy our needs. Read to see why we must absolutely protect our local breed of cows, goats and buffalos.

Biodiversity in the urban jungle

Sanskriti Menon

Living in an urban city with only shops and building around? Is nature restricted to your neighbourhood park? Find out how you can still instill in children a love for nature from this article.

Connecting with nature

V Shubhalaxmi

Bombay Natural History Society’s Conservation Education Centre has launched many programmes and events that are helping people connect with nature. See how you can replicate some of their programmes in your own schools and localities.

Grass, grass all around

Geetha Iyer

When we think of grass we don’t go much beyond the inviting lawn that we have sat on or lazed on in our gardens or parks. Did you know that there are many different types of grass and plants that are often mistaken for grass but are not really grass? Read all that you did not know about the grass in this article.

The most dangerous animals are two-legged

Sadhana Ramchander

This author’s trip to the popular Jim Corbett National Park has left her in no doubt that the most dangerous and destructive animals are those that walk on two legs– the human beings.

Let my teachers awake

Steven Rudolph

Here the author picks up from where he left off in the last article and talks about how he got his teachers excited to try out an “open day” in school– a day when teachers could plan and organize their time the way they want to with little inteference from the administration. If this experiment works with the teachers, the author plans to allow students in his school to chalk out their own schedules instead of following a pre determined time table. Wait and watch as to how the teachers’ open day turned out.