emerald tahr

Blogging for conservation? Reporting on environment and wildlife, I was thinking of publishing my stories appearing in paper in a blog. Living in Tamil country, the title is natural. Emerald dove is the state bird. A closer look at the picture reveals the colours of the world in a single bird. The shades of blue for the sky and seas, the green for the forests, black for the universe and a purple grey for the rains, and the sparkling red for the fire beneath the earth's soils. Aptly, it should be titled emerald dove. But I wanted the nilgiri tahr, the state animal to be part of the title. The tahrs roam in the upper reaches of the western ghats close to my home town on the leeward side of the majestic ranges. The colour of the tahr represents everything about earth. Like the earth, the tahrs can't live without the greens. A walk with the tahrs in the wilderness of the grass hills can be heavenly. A flight with the emerald dove through the shola rainforests is equally heavenly.

Therefore, I am.