News from NCF: Elephant Information Network, Coral Bleaching, Working in Snow Leopard Country

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WHERE ARE ELEPHANTS IN VALPARAI? FIND OUT ON A BUS!

Our Elephant Information Network has a new addition: voice announcement systems installed on government buses to alert passengers about elephant presence in the Valparai plateau.

We asked our Spitian Field Coordinators some searching questions about what it’s really like to live and work in snow leopard country. Here's what they had to say!

Settling on shaky ground

How dead coral structures carve the fate of young coral recruits in the Lakshadweep islands

‘HEART WRENCHING’

Summer this year, India's corals reefs were badly hit by global warming. Rohan Arthur shares his concerns

WHAT'S THE BUZZ?

(From Nature Calls—a series of nature-based activities for children)

Attract some bees to your balcony and send in your observations for a chance to win a book on Indian animals!

Stupendous Spiders

(From our column for children in The Hindu's schools edition)

Vena Kapoor takes us into the endlessly fascinating world of spiders—those misunderstood little eight-legged creatures.

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Monsoon '16

Q&A with Kalzang Gurmet and Tanzin Thinley

Research and news from the Lakshadweep

Settling on shaky ground

‘HEART WRENCHING’

Children and Nature

WHAT'S THE BUZZ?

Stupendous Spiders

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