What We're Up To

The three of us -- Karan Chhabra, Katie Swails, and Sandeep Prasanna -- are Duke students spending eight weeks in the south Indian rainforest working on a series of short documentary films about environmental issues in order to aid the outreach programs of SAI Sanctuary, a wildlife sanctuary in the Western Ghats region. In the process, we'll also be organically farming, aiding in the construction of biogas plants, and chasing rare plants and animals.

Follow us as we navigate through the jungle and much more!

You can learn more about the DukeEngage program at dukeengage.duke.edu. You can also find out what the SAI Sanctuary, our hosts, are working on at saisanctuary.com.

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Some fauna


I thought it would be fun to post some pictures of animals we came across on our treks around the sanctuary. (And no, although we saw plenty of evidence of them [i.e., plenty of fresh dung] we didn't run across any wild elephants...sad). The above picture is a very rare creature.... known as Leela, it's been known to terrorize many a cat and person.

Praying mantis

Water Buffaloes

Unidentified frog (and human!)

Snail

Horned spider

Tree frog

Dragonfly

GIGANTIC roly-poly

Barking deer