Putting biodiversity in the mainstream

Any chance you’d remember how you came across the term “biodiversity” before? If not, let me make it easier for you by making you pick from the choices listed below instead. Could you have learned about biodiversity through:
A. Printed materials. It could be academic textbooks (don’t be shy now), magazines, posters, or newspapers. Billboards—why not?
B. [...]

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Looking for the Whiskered Pitta on Mt. Polis

It’s been more than an hour into our birding group’s foray into Mt. Polis. We had clambered past the crumbly soil of the potato fields, to enter the ever-receding tree-line. Every year, the tree-line feels more distant as the vegetable patchwork creep up the mountain. Once past the vegetable patches, we followed a narrow wood-cutter’s [...]

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Fascinated by hornbills, yet again

I was commissioned to draw the maps for a Philippine biodiversity handbook earlier this year. One set of maps intended to show the distribution of the different species of hornbills in the country. Since the time my fascination for those birds began, this was the first time I had truly realized that there were indeed [...]

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Sad stories?

I think most people would agree that the panda ranks high up there in the cuteness meter. Big, cuddly, and sweet, the panda’s plight for survival has attracted universal appeal and it has even become the logo of international conservation group WWF.
Which is why seeing this article naturally did not exactly make my day:
“Panda [...]

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