I have always loved writing, but sitting down to actually write The Dark Forest was a surprisingly daunting task. Not the researching and actual writing part, but the knowledge that this is the first actual guide to biodiversity of an ecosystem that I hold very dear to my heart. Many researchers have studied the biodiversity…
The mud path abruptly narrows and we brake sharply. Looks like the car won't go any further. We park it off the path in some shrubby vegetation, narrowly avoiding an army of procession ants (never ever let these little guys bite you; you'll be itching for days) as we climb out and tie on our…
Just a few kilometers ahead of Kathalekan along the Siddapur-Honnavar highway, a hidden swamp wallows in the low-lying dense forests of the Sharavathi. Malemane (literally "forest-house" or "house in the forest") falls along the Kathalekan belt of swamps, an interconnected series of Myristica swamps along a perennial stream. Each successive swamp collects runoff from the…
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