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  • Visible changes towards the worse

    Visible changes towards the worse

    • April 17, 2013

    There have been several instances of wild animals and birds coming out from the shelter of the jungles in many places in Arunachal Pradesh. The hollock-gibbons no more swing the branches of sub-tropical trees of some districts, nor do migratory bird flocks frequent the water bodies in the Indo-Myanmar borders of Changlang these days. Sightings of wild elephants have become very rare in Lohit and the lower belts of Tirap. Fishes that once used to be the pride of the five rivers of Arunachal Pradesh are vanishing. Something is fearfully wrong. Something very strange is happening to wildlife in Arunachal Pradesh and its adjoining sisterly states of the whole North East region. Still considered to be the best ecosystem – almost a paradise for wildlife and forest – just next to the Amazons of Brazil – the region’s precious wildlife seems to be in jeopardy along with its forests, rivers and mountains. The situation is almost similar further east. The land of thunderbolts – as Bhutan is known – surprisingly and unexpectedly experienced unprecedented drought and shortage of drinking water last year. Who could have imagined the water storage to go thirsty? Melting of the Himalayan...

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