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Inside: Special Mention Rathika Ramasamy on Pg, 30 RAVNEESH SHARES HIS PICTURE OF A FAWN FROM KANHA NATIONAL6 PARK (MADHYA PRADESH) INDIA.
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RAVNEESH SINGH KLAIR
Student of the Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal.
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Trikansh Sharma Photographer from RATHIKA RAMASAMY Haridwar. Rathika Ramasamy is an Indian wildlife photographer. First Indian woman to Achieve international reputation as a . wildlife photographer.
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The photo was shot in December as we went for safari into Kanha National Park. It was chilly winter morning and we found this pack of four dholes playing on the track. Then they moved into the road where the light was filtering through the foliage of salwood trees and dholes went off our sight slowly moving and I took a wide angle shot which shows the magnitude of the jungle with the predators. ⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽ This Magazine is presented by EXPLORE WILD INDIA APP Group Mall Road -Shimla Himachal Pradesh. Managing at: (EXPLORE WILD INDIA APP Group Contribution Chaitanya Vihar Phase 1, Chaitanya Vihar, Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh 281121)
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Contents
Photo: Heena Sidhu
On the Cover: Ravneesh Shares his picture of a Fawn from Kanha National Park (Madhya Pradesh) India.
● Photo feature
●Storyteller
42. Photo of the Month: The Future Is Here: Aamir Khatri
14. Explore Kanha
● Quick’s Facts
17. Magical Corbett
45. Black Leopard | Kabini
23. Sightings: Kabini
47.Species-Focus:Black-headed Cuckoo shrike .
● People 31. Special Interview: Talk with Rathika Ramasamy 35. Wildlife in Art: Mohit Yadav 40. Special Mention: Himanshu Yadav 9
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48.Online Discussion – Black Leopard Kabini : Abhilash Kar Back Cover Deshpande
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Editor’s Note
Now in this Edition I want to show the beauty of Kanha National Park- how this park has varieties of birds & animals. Kanha is one of the tiger reserves of India. India is a home of 50 tiger reserves which are governed by Project Tiger which is administrated by the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA). Thanks to all Photographers who has contributed their
Photos in this edition. In this Edition Photos are mostly featured from Kanha, Kabini, Nagzira, Corbett etc.
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Fawn in foggy forest | IUCN status: Least Concern | Kanha
I had clicked this picture in the year 2014. I was on a safari at Kanha tiger Reserve. The dawn had just broken and sunlight was breaking through the woods enlightening the fog, and there came a point where I saw a baby spotted deer grazing beside the road . It moved forward and came on the road! It stood like a King with the nature appreciating its presence! Foggy forest in the background and gilded sunlight from one side making it look glorious! I captured the picture from the moving vehicle, but somehow I was able to capture the moment! Explore Wild India APP | Ravneesh Singh Klair Indian Institute of Forest Management
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About Me: I am a student of the Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal. (An autonomous institute under the ministry of Forests, Environment & Climate Change). I am an engineer turned Conservationist. Traveling has always been my keen interest. And my urge to experience local highlights & native vibes places to helped me to see, appreciate & experience things beyond the eyes of a tourist, and that is how I was able to see the problems & challenges the local ecosystem of a destination faces due to growing conventional tourism and irresponsible tourists. This somehow changed my perspective towards nature and rather than just appreciating or complaining I decided for its betterment, and here I am today, preparing myself to work for the Environment and involve more people towards creating a healthier Earth.
RAVNEESH SINGH KLAIR rsklair19@iifm.ac.in | ravneesh.singh.1993@gmail.com PGDFM 2017-19 | 17035 INDIAN INSTITUTE OF FOREST MANAGEMENT
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Explore Kanha Name: Barasingha | IUCN status: Vulnerable It is early morning with 2 degree Temperatures, when we entered the Kanha National Park in central India. A freezing cold wave touches my face. After divining for few minutes, reached Kanha Meadow, where the Golden light of Sun is dominating the cold morning of Kanha. Then we saw the hallmark Male barasingha of with his horn decorated with dry grass to show his power to female. Barsha Chowdhary // Explore Wild India APP .
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It was fine morning in Kanha National Park, Our guide telling about the landscape and the beauty of the park .As we enter inside the we found many spotted deer and bird taking the sunbath because it the time of winter. Suddenly one small cub of spotted deer came across the road and stop there. We are searching for the tiger but when we saw the this cub we take our camera and take few pictures on the back light of sun its looks pretty good.
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Heena Sidhu // Kanha
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It was the first safari of my second trip to Kanha National Park. Kanha has a special place in my heart. If you blindfold me and leave me inside the Kanha National Park, I can smell it and hear it and know that it’s Kanha! So when I had a few days off from Shooting (the sport, not the one with camera) I decided to take a solo holiday and dedicated it to Shooting (one with the camera, not the sport!). I had seen most of the mammals of the Central India in my previous trips including the ones to various other National Parks but had never ever seen the Indian Wild dogs. Wild Dogs in India are extremely rare to spot, much rarer than even tigers and leopards. Though I had hoped to see them one day, I had never imagined that I would not only see them but witness their behavior first hand, and that too on my first safari that morning. It was the month of December, so extremely cold. Ours was the second jeep to enter the Mukki zone. We were just scouting around, enjoying the jungle cold and the sunrise when we saw three wild dogs just walking along the road! Just out of nowhere!! I was excited to take my first pictures of wild dogs but I was scared that I wouldn’t get a lot of time with them, so first I wanted to see them to my heart’s conten, but as it turned out it was much more than I had hoped for. It was a small pack of a male and two females. Our guide told us that Kanha has another bigger pack of about 12 wild dogs and these 3 seem to have separated from that pack. I was surprised to see just how small they were as compared to their reputation of being one of the top-most successful hunters. Maybe, I was wrong in assuming that only the size matters in the wild. Stamina matters too. We followed the dogs along the road driving up slowly behind them;They didn’t seem perturbed by our presence. They walked along the road, playful at times but alert too, giving me enough opportunities for some very good shots. Occasionally they went into the 15
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bushes, just to appear back on the road on the other side.They kept sniffing the air and the ground, and even went back and forth along their own track to come back and hide in the same bushes that they had been just a few minutes back! They were definitely up to something, we just didn’t know that yet. The jeeps kept following them during their exploit. It soon became clear that they were fixed on the deer in that area! There was an open grassland, beautiful and flooded with sunlight, which had a herd of deer grazing out in the open. We parked our jeep at the crossroads, with meadows on our left and the bushes, where the dogs were hiding, on our right. We were certain that if any action was to happen today, we were not going to miss it. The deer were also alert by this point. We saw the dogs appearing occasionally from the bushes, always a different points, testing the alertness of the deer from different angles, or they were not yet sure of their plan. I think they were aware of the fact that theirs was a much smaller pack and strategy (along with the stamina) would be important here, especially because the grassland was quite open and vast and the deer would spot them the moment they stepped out of the bushes. After a few minutes of trying to trick
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the deer the dogs seemed to understand that the topography was not their friend today, they decided to come out in the open and sun-bathe in the meadow. The deer were nervous about their presence in the beginning but once the dogs huddled together and sat down, the deer went back to grazing. We waited around for a few minutes, enjoying the sun ourselves, when the guide said, “Let’s go find tigers, looks like they are going to sit here for the whole morning basking in the sun.” As the jeep started moving I kept my gaze fixed on that small pack of wild dogs, thinking just how beautiful their coat looked in the sun, and just how remarkable would it be to see them chase the deer in the open. Maybe some oth er day! Right now I was just happy to see these beautiful animals for the very first time. 16
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This Picture was clicked in Kanha National Park in November, 2018.
My wife and myself were in the jeep in the morning safari in the jungle , when suddenly we saw this beautiful Jackal right in front of our jeep . He started then running around 50/60 ahead of the jeep for about 500/600 meters . I kept clicking and then just prayed that he does not go in the bushes and runs on the road for some more time and comes in the small light patches on the road , and bang I got one shot .
I was extremely happy with this picture , as I had kept the exposure on the camera for the light patch and not the shadows .
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orbett in winters is magical with its play of light and mist across the forest and the
grasslands. Being a regular visitor to Corbett, particularly in summers, I wanted to make use of this winter trip mostly to make image that capture the play of light and mist, that Corbett is known for. Instead of waiting on alarm calls (which were ongoing), we decided to head for the grasslands to be in time when the first light hits that part of the forest The forest was kind dark, cold and misty at that time, and first light was just filtering. Through and not much of animal movement of any kind was visible yet. Close to the grasslands, on the way, my eyes searching for animal movements came across this path to my right. this was a sight I was always looking for. I asked our driver, Kaleem, to stop and position the vehicle better. The path seemed like a tunnel with the canopy of trees surrounding it, the mist in the morning light added a bluish hue to the whole place, and the soft golden sunlight was filtering through in a few areas. There were two spotted deer’s, one grazing on the sides, but the one that caught my attention was the one right in the middle of the pathway, which looked up and directly towards us as we stopped at the distance. There was soft golden light that was lighting up a part of its face and some parts of its body, while other areas were in the dark this to me was a magical winter view and I wanted to capture this scene this is how this image was made. ATANU CHAKRABORTY | Explore Wild India APP
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I captured as many as photos as possible during the safari in recent last week. I simply just
did not want to miss any moment and could not resist myself from clicking every moment, creature, nature beautiful in my perspective. I just kept ready my camera and pressing the shutter frequently. Bablu Boro | Explore Wild India APP
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As the summer arise every creature starts starving for water to cool down their body and thrust , On evening of summers of 2018 I along with my friends decided to go for birdwatching and to target water body.Due to heat of ruthless weather very few water sources were left in forest. That day we shot soo many birds and mammals at single but still waiting for some rare species to come and in the end after five in the evening this beauty , Emerald Dove arrives for show and finally it became one of my most memorable day in forest. Himanshu Yadav | Naturalist & Conservationist | Jabalpur , MP , India .
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Explore Kabini A winter morning in the jungles of South India!
The excitement (as ever) was thick in the early morning air as we were sipping a hot cup of coffee before the start of our safari on that mist filled morning, the air was fresh with the smell of the newly sprouted leaves and the blooming flowers made it a special day. And as we entered the forest gate the heart started to beat fast in expectation of sighting a big cat. But our driver Chota whispered 'Sir there's a Sambar stag there’, I aimed and focused the lens of my camera to get a few shots of this wonder animal. And sometime later we did encounter a big cat and got some awesome shots of it. And here I have a wonderful frame of the stag. (The winter sets over the Western Ghats by early mid October every year after the rainy season. The forest turns into a magical paradise and the denizens enjoy the bountiful. It's the right time to visit the jungles of India to see the nature in splendor.) Sambar stag on a misty morning. Kabini | SP JAGDISH 23
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Kanha a magical forest was on my last trip for the season in July before parks closed for rains. It was hot summer and a hot previous day, slowly rain clouds started come previous night and started raining next morning we started your morning drive, colour of forest and feel had changed with just one rain it was misty and cold that is magic of Kanha. We were driving through thickness searching for tigers asked my driver to stop he thought it was a tiger :) .. I told peacock on a rock. With mist behind and peacock on the rock felt magical and did not want to miss it. SANJEEV | EXPLORE WILD INDIA APP
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This beautiful pair of Sportted Deers caught my eye while strolling one evening on the roads of Kanha. I guess we both surprised each other and I cud not help but capture this moment.
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Three-and-a-half-year-old Ranthambore tigress T-84(Arrowhead) was on Wednesday spotted by Wildlife Photographer Abhinav Garg with two cubs at Jhalra near Ranthambore fort during an Evening Safari. The cubs are around two to three months old as per Forest Department. Arrowhead is the granddaughter of India's most iconic and endearing big Cat Machhli which died of Old age in Aug 2016. “It is her second litter, as in previous case it was natal mortality. She is daughter of T-19(Krishna) and sister of T-83(Lightening). // ABHINAV GARG
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Rathika Ramasamy talks about herself & wildlife, Recently Rathika Ramasamy has been Interviewed By Explore Wild India‘s Editor Devesh Kumar.
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1. When did you first realize to select wildlife photography? I was doing travel and people photography. Around 2004 I realize I was drawn towards more and more towards wildlife.
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2. How much difficulties have you faced to become a wildlife photographer?
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Wildlife is one of the challenging photography , One has to good stamina to carry your gear and to spend lot of time in outdoor .Weather was constraint, most of the time shooting will be extreme heat or cold , Once you get used to it then it is “way of life” .
3. Which one is your favorite shot Bird or Animal? Have many Favorite Image, selecting one would be tough. Fighting darter shot is one of my favorite bird shot.
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4. What is your opinion about Indian Wildlife conservation? Conserving Wildlife Habitats are important to balance the biodiversity. Wildlife and forests are providing resources to mankind, food fuel, shelter, medicines. Gives life Supporting system clean air, water and fertile soil. What is happening our nature and forest like deforestation improperly; planned development systems poaching demand for the endangered animals, increasing market demands for forest products, pressure from agriculture and grazing, unregulated tourism are all taking a heavy toll in wildlife & forest. Though the government and few NGO are working on it, more awareness required. That we have to realize for future generation we need to preserve our fauna and flora.
5. Which is your favorite bird sanctuary? Bharatpur is one of my favorite bird sanctuary. It is a paradise for bird watchers and photographers. Winter it the park is full of migratory water fowls and summer you find lot like e.g.: resident bird’s activity. Good place for photography and with excellent hotspots for bird activity.
6. If not a wildlife Photographer what would you be? Now I can’t think any other job. But I will be in Software Industry.
7. Three Things not many People know about you? I love to travel other than wildlife parks. I love to explore old fort and historic places I know other genre of photography too .though I did not get time to shoot.
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ArtWork : Mohit Yadav
Tigeress Sketech Made by Artist – Mohit Yadav In Frame : Tigeress Avni
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Ritesh Bagai, an Indian Miniaturist, painting tiny- detailed Paintings.
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LION TAILED MACAQUE Western Ghats is a hidden paradise with many endangered species. LTM is one such endangered species with high rate of decrease in population.
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The lion-tailed macaque is a diurnal rainforest dweller. It is a good climber and spends a majority of its life in the upper canopy of tropical evergreen forest. Unlike other macaques, it avoids humans. In group behavior, it is much like other macaques; it lives in hierarchical groups of usually 10 to 20 animals, which consist of few males and many females. It is a territorial animal, defending its area first with loud cries towards the invading troops. If this proves to be fruitless, it brawls aggressively.
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Lion-tailed macaque behavior is characterized by typical patterns such as arboreal living, selectively feeding on a large variety of fruit trees, large inter individual spaces while foraging, and time budgets with high proportion of time devoted to exploration and feeding. It primarily eats indigenous fruits, leaves, buds, insects and small vertebrates in virgin forest, but can adapt to rapid environmental change in areas of massive selective logging through behavioral modifications and broadening of food choices to include fruits, seeds, shoots, pith, flowers, cones etc. - VIGNESH THANGARAJ | EXPLORE WILD INDIA APP.
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Quick Answers | Himanshu Yadav
1. How do you see India as a Wildlife Country? India is been a hotspot for wildlife lovers from ages, from mythology to real life one can see glimpse of wilderness everywhere. India holds about 7% mammals, 13% Birds, 6.2% Reptiles, and about 10% of World's total trees & flowering plants. But it is every important for youth of India to consider it as important thing current situation of India's conservation is like now or never.
2. How do you see MP as a Wildlife Zone? Apart from Western Ghats, MP I consider as a most conserved & tourist friendly places in terms of wildlife. MP has 25 Wildlife Sanctuaries, 10 National Parks & 6 Tiger Reserves. In MP one can see different habitats from thick Sal forest of kanha & Bandhavgarh to Dry scrublands of Panna. Two mountains ranges i.e. Satpura & Vindhya plays a major role for wildlife of MP. In Satpura ranges species of Western Ghats & north east can be found. 3. Sariska or Kanha which one you will select to see Tigers? In between these two parks I would suggest Kanha for regular tiger sighting but one should not stick only to one specie if she/he has paid for visit whole forest.
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4 . What is Your Opinion about Wildlife Education? Wildlife education in India should not be restricted to kids only. Everyone should learn, understand & do care for the responsibility we're having in form of wildlife. It’s now Oxygen vs. Destruction situation in India. 5. Which is your Favorite Wild Animal of India and Why? For me every creature is equally important whether it’s a bird, mammal or small insect. I always keep learning about new creatures and observing their behavior and habitat. Tiger from childhood got a special place in my heart & family. I am also having deep fond of bird watching.
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The Future Is Here: AAMIR KHATRI | EXPLORE WILD INDIA APP
Gir Sanctuary has been closest place to visit since my childhood days. I have been visiting this place since I was 9 years old. By the age of 16 I started to film the cats in the wild and it has given me many surprises with some amazing memories. On one fine chilly morning of December 2018 I headed early into the jungle hoping for some lucky sightings in the foggy jungles of Gujarat known as Gir National Park, but the luck was not in my favor and I couldn’t get any good sightings. We lost all the hopes of a miraculous sighting once it was sunrise. Generally when the sun is out the cats are not active much and they prefer to rest in the shades. We dint give up and kept going in search of a cat and after sometime we heard kind of rustling from the bushes and we waited there for some time and we saw this tiny fur ball coming out of the bushes calling out his mom (we assume) and it was that time we realized that we have hit gold when we saw another cub followed the first one. It was a pure bliss to witness these cubs play in open and giving us some wonderful shots.
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Explore Wild India: The Past, Present, and the Future ADVT The time has now come to save our wildlife and nature. This message is for all wildlife lovers and people. India is a home of wildlife; we have approximately 120 National Parks and around 500 wildlife sanctuaries out of which 50 are governed by Project Tiger. Sadly today many of our birds, animals, reptiles are getting endangered day by day. The wildlife and nature are being destroyed by human activities and also poaching, illegal – trade, hunting are increasing day by day. Now Time has come to take the major steps being a responsible citizen of India, we all have to stand with our wildlife. It is requested to all members / supporters / wildlife lovers to educate people & bring awareness about wildlife and nature conservation and also to make donation for wildlife.
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Black Leopard | Kabini IMAGE: YASHAS NARAYAN
• It is also known as “Ghost of Kabini”. • Color is black due to Melanism. • The leopard's spots - rosettes because they look - like roses. • They look Unique due to their black color. EXPLORE WILD INDIA APP | 2019 www.explorewildindia.app/alive 45
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Despite its name it’s not related to genuine cuckoos, but a characteristic it shares with cuckoos - a distinctive undulating flight pattern of short bursts of flapping followed by long swooping glides . A winter migrant to bangalore Black-headed Cuckooshrike . IUCN Status : Least Concern | Rajiv Basu
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