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Modi's 2070 Pledge at UN COP 26

Cartoons on COP 26

Cartoons on the upcoming UNFCCC COP 26 created for a Cartoonstock Cartoonathon earlier this month. The cartoons are available royalty free on my Cartoonstock collection. 

Dams in Himachal Pradesh

After being subjected to catastrophic landslides, the people of Himachal are now rising in protest against the increasing footprint of hydel power in the state. Lend your voice by signing this petition: https://act.jhatkaa.org/campaigns/no-...
Thanks to Manshi Ashar and Sumit Mahar for their valuable inputs. Cartoon from my column with The Hindu Weekend.  

Wildlife Photography Gear Ambassadors

Wildlife photographers and film-makers of India, check out this cool new equipment! Cartoon from my column with Sunday Mid-Day. 

New Zealand Pygmy Pipehorse

Meet Cylix tupareomanaia, a Pygmy Pipehorse from New Zealand : the world's first creature to be officially named in collaboration with an indigenous tribe, the Ngatiwai. The species name in Maori translates to 'garland of the seahorse'.
Comic from my column with The Hindu Sunday Magazine.

Galapagos Marine Reserve Habitat Illustration

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Easily one of the top 10 in my list of places to see before I die, the Galapagos Archipelago, besides being the very cradle of the evolution of evolutionary science, houses a magical range of biodiversity! And thanks to the Save Our Seas Foundation, I got an opportunity to illustrate what a typical panorama at the Galapagos Marine Reserve looks like. From blood-sucking Vampire Finches to diving Boobies, from the algae-munching Marine Iguana to the cactus-loving Land Iguana, from tiny endemic catsharks to massive Humpback Whales; you'll find them all this gigantic illustration that appears along side a piece on Galapagos in the SOSF magazine. Find the magazine online here. 
Special thanks to Jade Schulz, Pelayo Salinas and James Lea from the Save our Seas Foundation for commissioning the piece and for guiding me through it. 

Ivory billed and Great Slaty Woodpecker

Did you know that the extinction of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker makes an Indian woodpecker species, the Great Slaty Woodpecker the largest wild woodpecker in the world? Cartoon fro my column with The Hindu Sunday Magazine. Thanks to Raman Kumar of the Nature Science Initiative who let me in on this bit of trivia.

Forest Conservation Act Amendment

In yet another 'masterstroke' by the Government of India, a very problematic set of amendments to the Forest Cpnservation Act has been proposed, and only 15 days have been allotted to receive comments. These are just a few of the points of contention presented in this comic from my column with Sunday Mid-Day. More details are in this article in The Hindu. Do read and offer your comments on the amendment on the Civis website here, which also has a summary of the bill. 
Please welcome our new environment minister and 'Clearance Man' Bhupender Yadav making his debut appearance on Green Humour!

Adani and Black-throated Finch

Adani's Carmichael Coal Mine (renamed 'Bravus' because the company mistakenly thought the word means 'brave' when it quite appropriately means 'crooked') launched a conservation plan for the endangered Black-throated Finch to cover up their act. The finch is threatened by mining and resulting habitat loss. The conservation plan was found to be hogwash by a Queensland government scientific panel. The report was eventually buried by the Queensland government. Cartoon from my column with The Hindu.

Primates of India

Meet the 23 primate species of India in this new compilation! Prints and merchandise shipped worldwide on my Redbubble store here. For t-shirts within India, visit my Styched store. For posters within India, please email me on rohanchakcartoonist@gmail.com mentioning the number of prints, sizes, and postal address and contact details for delivery (the available sizes for this poster are A3 (Rs. 500), A2 (Rs. 1000) and A1(Rs. 3000) ).
Note that the White-cheeked Macaque, added to India's checklist in 2016 after being discovered from Arunachal Pradesh does not have an IUCN status yet as it is yet to be assessed (but will turn out to be endangered in all likelihood owing to its restricted range, habitat loss and hunting). The other species that do not have an IUCN status mentioned against them are of 'Least Concern' on the Red List.