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In 2022, Priya Davidar and I were witnesses to wildlife management at its worst and got quasi-forced to write a paper about it (Puyravaud and Davidar 2022). The issue was how an elephant called Rivaldo was handled. It was dark, absurd and tedious to narrate. It may even have been impossible to believe if […]
The Todas are a tiny tribal group living in the Nilgiri mountains in the Western Ghats of India. Traditionally, they relied on a special breed called Toda buffalo, who provided them with milk and butter. The preferred habitat of the buffalo is wetlands, originally abundant on the Nilgiri Plateau. The Todas derived their construction material […]
E.R.C. Davidar, the founder of the Sigur Nature Trust, undertook a study in the late 1970’s with the support of the Bombay Natural History Society on the elephant corridors of the Nilgiri (Davidar, 1981; see Davidar et al. 2012). He adopted an interesting approach: he assumed that elephants had circled the Nilgiri Mountains before the […]