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March 3, 2023
Sand Mining and Gharials
India's sandy river banks are as endangered as the wildlife that nests on them, thanks to illegal sand mining! Correspondent Gharial for Nature TV News, in my column with The Hindu Sunday Magazine. 
February 25, 2023
Legal Personhood for the Great Barrier Reef
The Great Barrier Reef could soon be granted legal personhood! What do you think it’s first move will be?
Cartoon for DW Global Ideas’ social media page. Read more on the issue here.
February 18, 2023
Big Oil War Profits
Even as Ukraine reels from one human crisis after another, and Europe reels from shortage of power supply, Big Oil companies have earned record-shattering war profits. Cartoon from my column with The Hindu Sunday Magazine.
World Pangolin Day 2023
What would it look like if the world’s most trafficked mammal had a #ValentinesDay date night?
Cartoon from my column with RoundGlass Sustain.
Happy #WorldPangolinDay to you and your valentine!
February 15, 2023
World Hippo Day
If I asked you to name the two species of hippopotami in the world, would you be able to, without Googling? Now you can! Here!
Get Hippo merchandise on my Redbubble webstore here, shipped worldwide.
February 12, 2023
Futala Lake in Nagpur
Futala Lake, among my hometown Nagpur's most famous landmarks, was once the wintering ground for migratory waterbirds and waders. Today it is marked by a concrete embankment, a musical fountain, and deforestation along its peripheries. Activists and environmentalists from the city have been campaigning against this transformation.
Comic from my column with The Hindu Sunday Magazine.
February 6, 2023
Irulas win the Padmashri
Vadivel Gopal and Masi Sadaiyan, members of the snake-catching Irula community, were among the 106 Padma awardees on this Republic Day (26th January). The duo has not only led snake-catching operations in India but also advised snake expeditions abroad!
Despite playing a critical role in saving thousands of lives each year from snakebites, Irulas who have been the backbone of the antivenom supply in India, have faced caste-based injustices over decades.
The comic appears in my column with The Hindu Sunday Magazine. A couple of years back, I wrote and illustrated a short comic book on snakebite awareness called ‘Making Friends with Snakes’ in collaboration with the Madras Crocodile Bank Trust and renowned herpetologist Mr. Romulus Whitaker, which is available via Pratham Books and Storyweaver. The book was a recipient of the Green Literature Festival Award, 2021.
January 28, 2023
IUCN Pronouns for Threatened Species
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) categorises species into the following labels:
DD: Data deficient
LC: Least Concern
NT: Near-threatened
Vu: Vulnerable
En: Endangered
Cr: Critically endangered
EW: Extinct in the Wild
Ex: Extinct
NE: Not evaluated
The cartoon appears in my column with Roundglass Sustain. The entire archive of Green Huour comics published on Roundglass is on https://roundglasssustain.com/green-h...
In case you’re wondering where you’ve seen that moose before, it’s this comic on COP 27 and Biodiversity COP15!
January 27, 2023
Keystone Species Awards
Did you know that the total biomass of the Antarctic Krill, at 379000000 tonnes, is the largest animal biomass of any species on earth? And it is this tiny organism that sustains the entire continent of Antarctica (as well as other landmasses in the Southern Ocean).
I first came to know of this astonishing piece of trivia when I illustrated a panoramic habitat representation of the Antarctic Peninsula for Save Our Seas Foundation . Read more about how all life on Antarctica, right from tiny petrels to gigantic Humpback Whales, link back to the Antarctic Krill in the food web, on the article accompanying the illustration.
That’s one organism that ‘kreally’ deserves an award (and the limelight!)
The comic is a part of my ongoing collaboration with Europe’s leading news channel DW for their social media page.
January 22, 2023
Ganga Cruises and the Gangetic Dolphin
Dredging and noise pollution associated with the newly launched luxury cruises in the Ganga are expected to make the already critical situation for Gangetic Dolphins a lot worse. Endangered and threatened by pollution and habitat loss, the Gangetic Dolphin is India's National Aquatic Animal.
Cartoon from my column with The Hindu Sunday Magazine.
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