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Moushumi Basu

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  • Environment and Wildlife Journalist, Freelance
Kolkata
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Covers:  Climate Change & Clean Energy | Biodiversity & Wildlife Conservation | Human-Wildlife Conflict | Indigenous Communities & Traditional Knowledge | Water Conservation & Sustainability and more.
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Moushumi Basu’s Biography

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An environment and wildlife journalist with over a decade of experience, Moushumi Basu brings out underreported stories on climate change, clean energy, wildlife conservation, and a range of other environmental issues across India. Her field-based research and reporting often take her to remote forests and villages, where she works closely with indigenous communities. Their voices from the ground — be it on their responses to climate impacts or their roles in forest and wildlife protection — fo…

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Lifting Cranes

Lifting Cranes

The world’s tallest flying bird — the sarus crane — survives in an unlikely landscape: the densely populated …

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Got milk? Indian camel herders cash in with solar-powered coolers | Context by TRF

Got milk? Indian camel herders cash in with solar-powered coolers | Context by TRF

In the scorching Thar Desert of Rajasthan, solar-powered milk chillers are helping camel herders preserve mil…

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Map the Commons, Protect the Planet * The Revelator

Map the Commons, Protect the Planet * The Revelator

Indigenous and local communities sustain forests, wetlands, grasslands, and shared natural resources through …

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The 'stork sisters' are saving one of India's largest and rarest birds

The 'stork sisters' are saving one of India's largest and rarest birds

Foraging across garbage dumps, scavenging on carrion and offal, and swallowing bones whole, the Greater Adjut…

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Tea and Salamanders

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By Moushumi Basu
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Nestled in the misty, snow-capped Himalayas in northeast India, the city of Darjeeling — the famed “Queen of the Hills” — has long been synonymous with its legendary tea gardens. But tea isn’t the only thing you’ll find on these rolling mountains. A “living fossil” also inhabits this landscape: the endemic Himalayan salamander (Tylototriton himalayanus), whose ancestors roamed the Earth with dinosaurs about 160 million years ago.
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‘Tortoise Guardians’ Protect Rare Giants

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By Moushumi Basu
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Seventy-two-year-old Namgaukum, from India’s northeastern state of Nagaland, cherishes rare childhood memories of riding an Asian giant tortoise (Manouria emys phayrei) through the forests near his Old Jalukie village. For the then five-year-old, the nearly two-foot-long carapace of the animals — the largest living tortoise in mainland Asia — often resembled a greyish-brown boulder in the forest about a foot above the mushy leaf litter and undergrowth.
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Strategic ‘Matchmaking’ Protects the World’s Smallest and Rarest Wild Pig

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By Moushumi Basu
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It is around 11 a.m. when Monora Begum, 45, hurries past the grasslands carrying a large plate of sugarcane shreds to feed her children — just not the kind of youngsters you might imagine. They’re endangered pygmy hogs (Porcula salvania), the world’s tiniest wild pigs, who are growing up at a conservation breeding center in northeast India. At a glance, these dark brown mammals, barely 10 inches (25 cm) tall and weighing about 18 pounds (8 kg), could easily be mistaken for baby wild boars.
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