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Wildlife | Canine | Waterbirds | Wetlands | Ladakh | Trans Himalaya | Hydropower | Mountain Ecology | जै हिमाल 🏔️🌲 #hilltribe Pithoragarh, Uttarakhand

Pithoragarh
Joined September 2011
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उत्तराखंड के 26वें स्थापना दिवस पर समस्त प्रदेशवासियों को हार्दिक बधाई🏔️। 9 नवंबर 2000 को मिले इस राज्य के लिए जिन्होंने अपना खून-पसीना बहाया, उन सभी महान राज्य आंदोलनकारियों को विनम्र श्रद्धांजलि और नमन। आइए, अपने राज्य की अस्मिता और अधिकारों की रक्षा का संकल्प लें।
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🚨India released new Earthquake map Now entire Himalayas in the highest earthquake danger zone for the first time ever.
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Its a failure of the country that domestic airfare is equivalent to what someone earns in an entire month
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We are also Indian, we are not Pakistan, we are not chinese. Are you trying to devour us like vegetables. Why are. Deploying arm forces here like this? We are not afraid of guns and bullets. We will save our mountain, we will save our rivers and ancestors land.
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Seven shades of the golden cat! 🐱 A study in Arunachal Pradesh has revealed striking colour variations in the elusive Asiatic golden cat—from golden and reddish-brown to grey and black. m.nenow.in/article/environme… @wii_india @IndiaDST @ArunForests @Shagun_Thakur91 @gopigv – at Guwahati, India
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#publicationalert All shades of gold—and beyond! 🐱🎨 Seven morphs of the Asiatic golden cat. Our study reveals remarkable color diversity in West Kameng, Arunachal Pradesh and Three morphs from Sikkim. We highlight Eastern Himalaya emerging as a hotspot of phenotypic variation in Asiatic golden cat. Read the full publication: link.springer.com/article/10… @moefcc @wii_india @IndiaDST @ArunForests @rameshpandeyifs @GobindsagarBha1 @SPYadavIFS @Shagun_Thakur91 @SsHindalekar, @Vineet_Climate @RanjanaPal12 @gopigv
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All shades of gold—and beyond! 🐱 Our study reveals 7 coat variations in Asiatic golden cat from West Kameng, Arunachal Pradesh and 3 polymorphs from Sikkim state, Eastern Himalaya, India. @ArunForests @moefcc @IndiaDST #Sikkim @wii_india @WestKameng
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People of Sikkim have shown more character than people of Uttarakhand! #ThankYouBrothersAndSistersOfSikkim
People of Sikkim REJECTS Dushyant Gautam as their Governor 🔥
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Sikkim leaders call for state wise strike against Dushyant Kumar appointment as a governor... Long live people of Sikkim.. #justiceforAnkitabhandari
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Shot on October 10 inside a detention bus
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Gen Z takes over the streets.🙌 🇮🇳: transparency & political accountability 🇲🇫: better schools & education 🇪🇦: affordable housing & lower rents 🇨🇱: controversial budget cuts
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No pension ..no canteen facilities to sister..no pension ..Saheed ka Darja bhi nahi milega..Om shanti .
बचपन में ही माता-पिता को खो दिया, दो बहनों का इकलौता भाई था हर्ष…19 साल की उम्र में छोड़ गया अपनों का साथ, अग्निवीर हर्ष बिष्ट को भावपूर्ण श्रद्धांजलि उत्तराखंड के रानीखेत, तारिकेत ब्लॉक के ग्राम सिरखाई निवासी 19 वर्षीय अग्निवीर हर्ष बिष्ट का वृंदावन, मथुरा में स्नान के दौरान डूबने से दुखद निधन हो गया। हर्ष बिष्ट ने बहुत कम उम्र में अपने माता-पिता को खो दिया था। वह अपनी दो बहनों के इकलौते भाई थे। इतनी कम उम्र में उनका यूं चले जाना परिवार और पूरे क्षेत्र के लिए अपूरणीय क्षति है। मां भारती के इस वीर सपूत को मेरा और समस्त क्षेत्रवासियों की ओर से शत-शत नमन एवं भावपूर्ण श्रद्धांजलि। ईश्वर दिवंगत आत्मा को शांति प्रदान करें और शोकाकुल परिवार को इस कठिन समय में शक्ति दें। ॐ शांति। #Agniveer #HarshBisht #IndianArmy #Uttarakhand #Ranikhet #Shradhanjali #Tribute #RIP #Shaheed #Army #facebookpost
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South Asia's rivers breathe with the monsoon. Before the rains the combined flow to the sea sits near 9,000 m3/s; at the August peak it reaches roughly 209,000, a 23-fold swing in a single year. #rivers #monsoon #dataviz
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Our new short note reports the first-ever record of the woolly flying squirrel (Eupetaurus cf. nivamons) from Arunachal Pradesh, India, extending the known range of this elusive Himalayan mammal into the eastern Himalaya. #ArunachalPradesh #WoollyFlyingSquirrel #EasternHimalaya
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Presented by Shagun Thakur on : What changes when you move up a mountain? In Kameng, 81% of elevational β-diversity was driven by species turnover, revealing strong compositional replacement along the gradient and increasingly distinct mammalian assemblages above ~3,300 m @moefcc @wii_india @SACONCoimbatore @GobindsagarBha1 @RuchiBadola2 @Shagun_Thakur91 @Vineet_Climate @jajohny2013 #WII #WildlifeResearch #iars2026
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#JusticeForAnkitaBhandari वीडियो सौजन्य @HarshKafar भाई।
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A waffling moment in Belgium. Happy to share this life update with you all ! @NeobiotaGroup @UFZ_de @idiv @wii_india #neobiota2026 #brussels
🏆 Pensoft was proud to sponsor the Best Talk Award at #NeoBiota2026! 🥇 Best Talk: Rajat Rastogi - cascading impacts and multi-trophic collapse driven by decadal multi-species forest invasions. Congratulations to Rajat! He receives a free publication waiver in @NeobiotaJournal
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Maa nanda devi raj jat yatra in 1968.
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The Badi Jaat Yatra of Maa Nanda Devi Rajrajeshwari has begun from Kurud in Chamoli, Uttarakhand. Amid the beats of dhol-damau and traditional rituals, Maa Nanda’s doli has begun its journey towards Kailash. The nearly 26-day pilgrimage will cover around 296 km, passing through villages and sacred stops where devotees will hold prayers, rituals and jagars along the way. For devotees, this is more than a journey. It is a tradition, a shared memory and an expression of Kumaoni and Garhwali faith that continues to connect generations. The Himalayas are not just a landscape here. They are deeply woven into the faith and culture of its people. Jai Maa Nanda Devi.🙏
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