Bittu Sahgal
@BittuSahgal
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Editor @SanctuaryAsia & Founder Sanctuary Nature Foundation, working to save wilderness habitats, fight climate change & protect the next generation from ours
Mumbai, India
Joined June 2009
Why feign surprise when India is punished by the climate crisis? Himalayan landslides!? Killer floods & droughts? Nature's warnings ignored! Remember Mumbai's 2005 Mithi disaster? Wyanaad's 2024 flood trauma (below)? Nero fiddled while Rome burned! @SanctuaryAsia
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FREE SPEECH - TELANGANA MODEL! In probably a first, police booked a case against an IAS for a RETWEET! Smitha Sabharwal, IAS, principal secretary of Youth Advancement, Tourism & Culture is the latest to be served notices by the Telangana police. The Crime: She retweeted an
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Roads to Nowhere? Landslides in the Himalaya and the Western Ghats cannot just be blamed on 'Acts of God'. The combination of gravity & rain demands that we obey the laws of nature, or continue to pay the price for disrespecting it. @SanctuaryAsia
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Snow leopards are to the Himalaya what tigers are to the forests of India. Their presence indicate health. Their absence from habitats they once occupied... decay. @SanctuaryAsia @shatakshigawade
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I attended one of Al Gore's earliest climate workshops in Delhi decades ago. He was one of the world's first, and most effective climate whistle blowers, as is the indefatigable @billmckibben of @350. From us at @SanctuaryAsia & @RajPhukan THANK YOU! https://t.co/gjbgUt7p11
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The best habitat for the tiger today is the human heart. @Sanctuaryasia
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So do YOU eat chemical carrots, spinach, apples, pears, peanuts, peas, grapes, strawberries, chapatis, rice, beans, mangoes, bannanas and more? @SanctuaryAsia Chemicals assasinate soil organisms that plants & fungi use to turn sunlight into carbohydrates https://t.co/68vkrLpGOy
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Rice is one among scores of foods that will be hit by our self-created climate crisis. We should be arming farmers with knowledge on the causes of the climate crisis, and the impact of chemicals on soils, not just the Monsoon arrival dates. @SanctuaryAsia
The Reserve Bank of India has warned that unpredictable weather, floods, and heatwaves hurt India’s agriculture and economy. Key farming states are most affected, impacting rice output and water availability.
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This is not a 'Swiss' problem... Every last glaciers on planet Earth is facing a meltdown! Pun intended!
INCREDIBLE !! Here we are... 😱😱😱 After days of overloading and cracks propagating, Birch Glacier collapsed over Blatten today at 3:24 pm and dammed the Lonza river... Devastating! 😭 https://t.co/EgQQjq8YCO
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A brief throwback on earlier interim orders that explain the significance of the current one: On Feb 19, 2024 the @indSupremeCourt directed that the original comprehensive definition of #forests as per the #Godavarman order was to remain. Its implication: All forests as per
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Today our case on the #ForestConservationAmendmentAct2023 was heard. The order is awaited. Meanwhile here is a brief based on Court proceedings: Thank you #SupremeCourt & bench of #JusticeGavai for another kickass interim order. Today, you have ensured that for every diversion
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The Supreme Court today restrained until further orders the Centre and the states from taking any step that would reduce forest areas.A bench of Justice B R Gavai and Justice K Vinod Chandran was...
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My obituary of Dr AJT Johnsingh. Remembering a man who cared for every lesser-known species, every scrap of habitat, and who walked more areas than any of us. in @SanctuaryAsia magazine. @BittuSahgal
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🧵 Implications of #FCAA23 👇(long 🧵 alert! ) In a landmark interim order on Feb 19th, the #CJI led #SupremeCourt (shukriya 🙏!) bench upheld the validity of its 1996 #GodavarmanJudgment in our PIL challenging the constitutionality of the #Forest (#Conservation) Amendment Act
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Neha it was such a pleasure meeting up. Yes! Indeed! Sanctuary is back in print! And you have loads of work to do.
Launching Sanctuary magazine in Delhi. @SanctuaryAsia is back in print, go get your copies! https://t.co/OEVL5GcFM2
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Ramoji Rao Garu I will never forget you Sir. You had the courage to stand by me and @shaibaba Shailendra Yashwant for over two decades.
I will always remain grateful to Shri Ramoji Rao Garu, for standing steadfast by my editor @BittuSahgal, our advocate Raj Panjwani (in pic) and me, for over 2 decades in a #SLAPP suit (defamation case) filed against us by a notorious chemical company from Gujarat. RIP Sir!
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Happy to share ❤️ It’s World Environment Day 2024, And👇 My picture & Write up on Rare Malayan Colugo Published in India's leading Wildlife & Conservation magazine @SanctuaryAsia June'24 Honoured to be part of the sanctuary family. 🐅🌳 Read & Share Everyone 🙏
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