Category: environment
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This is really upsetting

Kadamakkudy Islands is a highly ecologically sensitive area and is blessed with its wet lands, mangroves and migratory birds. A couple of weeks back when I visited Kadamakudy islands i saw this disturbing view of a huge mangrove tree cut down. The pictures will talk. Remember, mangroves are endangered species. Destroying them is a punishable…
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A thirty percentage decline in migratory birds – A call for action

Recently I met another bird photographer at Kadamakkudy Islands who was visiting Kadamakkudy Islands after seven years. What happened to Kadamakkudy?, Where are the birds?..that was his reponse with lot of anguish and pain. Studies points to the fact that there is a 30% decline of migratory birds visiting Kerala. Here are some of the…
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Trees dressed with silk clothes..

While going back from Kadamakkudy Islands, I stopped near this temple for a chai. A very interesting sight caught my attention. I saw trees dressed in silk. That seemed very interesting. Asked some people around about it. Wanted to know whether it is part of any ritual. None of them knew about it except one.…


