Visiting Responsibly
Ethical wildlife viewing in Indian forests
Plain rules of thumb for watching wildlife in Indian forests and reserves: distance, noise, food, night lights, bird calls, geotags and elephants on the road.
Wildlife
Tigers of Periyar and what the monitoring shows
How camera traps and India's four-yearly tiger estimate work, what they say about Periyar's tigers, and why most visitors never see one and still come home happy.
Wildlife
Nilgiri tahr and the shola grasslands of the high hills
The Nilgiri tahr lives only on the grassy cliffs of the southern Western Ghats. What research says about the animal, its shola-grassland home and how to watch it.
Wildlife
Watching elephants at Periyar, from the lake shore to the forest edge
Why the Periyar lake shore is such a good place to see Asian elephants, how to read a herd's body language, and how people at the forest edge live beside them.