Articles of Interest


Institute of Bird Studies and Natural History: An updated (January 2001) version of the article published in The Hindu, "FOLIO on Wildlife", 6th Sept. 1998.

Profile of A Naturalist: A tribute to Sri S. Rangaswami, architect behind the Rishi Valley Ecological experiment.

Ends of Earth: Read the excerpt on the Rishi Valley experiment written by Mr. Robert Kaplan in his book THE ENDS OF THE EARTH- A Journey at the Dawn of the 21st Century by Robert D. Kaplan .

Habitat renewal and recolonisation of Birds in the Rishi Valley by V. Santharam and S.Rangaswami: A paper presented at the National Seminar on Conservation of Eastern Ghats, March 24-26, 2002, held at Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh.

Return of the Bulbul: An account of the ecological regeneration effort from the book, "The Birds of Rishi Valley", written by Sri S. Rangaswami and Sri.S.Sridhar.

A drought year in Rishi Valley: An article written by Dr. Santharam, published in the magazine "Indian Birds".

Reach of the Rishi Valley School:  An inspiring account of Rishi Valley environmental success story written by Mr. Sridharan of the Good News India web site.

Living lightly on earth:  A passionately argued article by Dr.Radhika Herzberger calling for a fundamental change in the way we educate our children and the ever growing need to teach them about environment.