Expression from an Idiot by birth:

Whenever I deliver a talk on conservation to farmers, monks, nuns and sometimes even the educated lot, I m normally questioned to justify why would one spend money in conserving when nothing as conservation existed during our ancestral days and there were no recorded problems. My first answers would generally be, "our ancestors weren't greedy like we are now and didn't care of their wealth". Okey! on a serious note, I cover two main topics to justify myself to the question I get viz. Hydro-power and Human Wildlife Conflicts. 1. Hydro-power: How on earth is conservation connected to the economic generation potential of hydro-power? I am not going to touch on the controversial idea of the relation between number of trees and water volumes. But, I would like to touch from another angle here. We all know the important role ROOTS of trees and plants play in binding the soil and rocks thereby preventing soil erosion, but very few might have realized the pressure of rai...

Writing has always been my weakness and I am sure that it is never going to take even gradual improvement let alone exponential improvement. However, I have a passion for reading and writing: probably helping me to certain extent in whatsoever ways it might be helping me. I have been not able to post any during the last many months, not because I didn't want to write any, nor because I m not interested to blog anymore. It is all because of the crazy life I have been through for the last one year and a half- it is because of the 14th International Society of Ethnobiology (ISE) Congress. It is after I took over as the Chair of the organizing committee of the 14th ISE congress. Congress Participants with HRH Ashi Chimi Yangzom Wangchuck Ugyen Wangchuck Institute for Conservation and Environment (www.uwice.gov.bt) under the Department of Forests and Park Services organized the congress in collaboration to International Society of Ethnobiology (www.ethnobiology.net) 14th ISE Cong...