Generated by All in One SEO v4.9.7.2, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Aditya Dicky Singh On wildlife, nature, travel and photography... ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://dickysingh.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [The tourism conundrum – An insider responds](https://dickysingh.com/2008/10/29/the-tourism-conundrum-an-insider-responds/) - Here is an article that I wrote for the Sanctuary magazine: A few weeks ago, I received a scathing response from a ‘tiger activist’ friend to an article I had posted online about the conservation value of tourism. After blasting my views, he finally stated that what tigers really need is “isolation from the forest - [Two tiger poisoned in Ranthambhore Tiger Reserve](https://dickysingh.com/2010/03/08/two-tiger-poisoned-in-ranthambhore-tiger-reserve/) - two tigers poisoned by poachers in ranthambore tiger reserve in revenger killing for attacking goats - [Too close for comfort](https://dickysingh.com/2013/04/25/too-close-for-comfort/) - "Gemunu" is a wild tusker was born in 1991, part of an elephant herd based in Yala national park of Sri Lanka. Though his mother was vary of vehicles and visitors to the park, Gemunu was extremely tolerant of them. Male elephants have to leave the herd once they grow up and after Gemunu left - [Tigers in my backyard - My Solo Photography Exhibition in Delhi](https://dickysingh.com/2018/01/19/tigers-in-my-backyard-my-solo-photography-exhibition-in-delhi/) - Dicky Singh | Solo Show | Oddbird Theatre | 2nd-8th February 2018 | 11 am to 7 pm daily Curator: Laura Williams - Art 18|21 A photography exhibition of Dicky Singh, one of India’s most celebrated wildlife photographers and conservationists Venue: Oddbird Theatre, Dhan Mill Compound, 100 Feet Road, Chattarpur, New Delhi Contact: Laura Williams: - [Saving wild tigers in the land of committees](https://dickysingh.com/2016/09/12/saving-wild-tigers-in-the-land-of-committees/) - Someone rightly said that “a camel is a horse designed by a committee.” Recently I got a “report of Tiger Mortality (T30)” which is a hilarious read, but for the fact that it was about a wild tigress dying in Ranthambhore. A scan of the report is there at the end of this post. On - [From a “Camera owner” to a “Photographer”](https://dickysingh.com/2014/01/21/from-a-camera-owner-to-a-photographer/) - For sometime now I have met a lot of people who get keen on nature and wildlife photography, buy the equipment (which costs and arm and a leg) and then are stuck on how to go about it. Most of them would start with joining some training workshops, which do not really teach them anything. Many such beginners would do well to read this before they start shooting. - [Machali's timeline](https://dickysingh.com/2016/06/06/machalis-timeline/) - Machali (T 16) - Ranthambhore’s best known tigress worldwide - Born: monsoons 1997 and still alive at 19 years. Machali (numbered T 16 after 2007) was born in the monsoon months (July-September) of 1997. She was part of a litter of three female cubs born to "original Machali." By the end of 1999 she had - [Stalking tigress](https://dickysingh.com/2015/12/05/stalking-tigress/) - On the morning of 7th May 2008, we entered Ranthambhore national park on a safari. I was with my photography guru – Andy Rouse from UK. Soon enough we spotted T 17 hiding in a patch of grass on top of a low hill. She was eyeing a small herd of Spotted Deer at the - [T 24 or Ustaad episode in Ranthambhore](https://dickysingh.com/2015/10/16/t-24-or-ustaad-episode-in-ranthambhore/) - Warning: Graphic images 8th May 2015 – Ranthambhore national park I, Aditya Singh, was on a safari in Ranthambhore national park with my friend Dharmendra Khandal of Tiger Watch. At around 18:05 hours we were parked near a lake when we heard a wireless message in a Forest Department jeep that was parked next - [2014 in twenty pictures](https://dickysingh.com/2014/12/25/2014-in-twenty-pictures/) - The year 2014 can be summed up for me in twenty pictures. Each one of thees pictures represents a photography trip that I did or a series of safaris that I did in Ranthambhore national park, where we live. Hope 2015 turns out as good for me. - [Machali – Ranthambhore’s iconic tigress – is it close to the end of the road for her.](https://dickysingh.com/2014/11/28/machali-ranthambhores-iconic-tigress-is-it-close-to-the-end-of-the-road-for-her/) - It looks like its close to the end of the road for Ranthambhore National Park's iconic tigress T 16 or Machali. There are many tales about her and some of them are true. She was born in the monsoon months of 1997, one of the three sisters, whose mother was known as Machali. When Colin - [Search for a decent picture of the Snow Leopard](https://dickysingh.com/2014/03/06/search-for-a-decent-picture-of-the-snow-leopard/) - My trip in the search for wild snow leopards in Hemis national park in Ladakh, India in February 2014. A trans himalayan expedition in search for a wildlife picture for the elusive Pantera uncia or shan or snow leopard - [Identifying tigers of the tourism zone of Ranthambore tiger reserve](https://dickysingh.com/2014/02/06/742/) - Identification guide to the wild tigers of the tourism zone in Ranthambhore national park - [From a camera owner to a photographer – my time in Ranthambhore](https://dickysingh.com/2014/01/24/from-a-camera-owner-to-a-photographer-my-time-in-ranthambhore/) - From a camera owner to a photographer - my time spent for the last decade in Ranthambhore tiger reserve in India. Wildlife photographer who shoot tiger habitats - [High praises from a man I respect](https://dickysingh.com/2013/09/28/high-praises-from-a-man-i-respect/) - I just saw this message on Bittu Sahgal’s facebook timeline. He is the editor of India’s only wildlife magazine (Sanctuary), a true conservationists and an inspiration to loads of people like me. Feeling good :) Post by Bittu Sahgal. Read the bear tiger confrontation story here - [Masai Mara](https://dickysingh.com/2012/07/28/masai-mara/) - Heading to Masai Mara in a few hours for the migration - One month of bliss More details at - http://baghsafari.com/events/?dblog_id=1 - [Seasons in Ranthambhore – Summers](https://dickysingh.com/2012/05/28/seasons-in-ranthambhore-summers/) - Ranthambhore tiger reserve, with its sub-tropical dry climate, has three very well defined seasons - summers, winters and monsoons. Summers start during the end of March and last through the months of April, May and June. During this season the days are very hot and dry, while the nights are warm. During May and June - [Time Lapse Images from Ranthambhore Tiger Reserve](https://dickysingh.com/2012/05/10/time-lapse-images-from-ranthambhore-tiger-reserve/) - A collection of time lapse videos stitched using still cameras from ranthambhore tiger reserve - [Tanzania Feb-March 2012](https://dickysingh.com/2012/03/18/tanzania-feb-march-2012/) - Photographic safari to Tanzania - Ndutu and Serengeti for wildlife and nature photography - [Five weeks in Masai Mara National Reserve – Week 5](https://dickysingh.com/2011/11/16/five-weeks-in-masai-mara-national-reserve-week-5/) - Trip report from our photography or photo safari to Masai Mara in Kenya for the great migration and watching other wildlife, predators, cats and birds - [Five weeks in Masai Mara National Reserve – Week 4](https://dickysingh.com/2011/11/04/five-weeks-in-masai-mara-national-reserve-week-4/) - trip report from our masai mara wildebeest migration wildlife photo safari to Kenya, Africa - [Five weeks in Masai Mara National Reserve – Week 3](https://dickysingh.com/2011/10/22/five-weeks-in-masai-mara-national-reserve-week-3/) - Trip report from our annual wildebeest migration safari for wildlife photography to Masai Mara in Kenya, Africa - [Five weeks in Masai Mara National Reserve – Week 2](https://dickysingh.com/2011/10/17/five-weeks-in-masai-mara-national-reserve-week-2/) - Trip report from our annual wildebeest migration photo safari to Masai Mara, Kenya, Africa - [Five weeks in Masai Mara National Reserve – Week 1](https://dickysingh.com/2011/10/13/five-weeks-in-masai-mara-national-reserve-week-1/) - Annual wildebeest migration to Masai Mara for photo safari to Kenya, Africa for wildlife photography of animals, cats, birds and landscapes - [Bear Tiger confrontation – 10 pics that tell a story](https://dickysingh.com/2011/04/10/bear-tiger-confrontation-10-pics-that-tell-a-story/) - Sloth bear mother with two cubs on her back fighting with two tigers in Ranthambhore or ranthambore tiger reserve - [Little Bittern sighted in Ranthambhore national park on 22/23 May 2010](https://dickysingh.com/2010/06/15/little-bittern-sighted-in-ranthambhore-national-park-on-2223-may-2010/) - A Little Bittern (Ixobrychus minutus) was sighted and photographed for the first time in the plains of India. A keen birder from Delhi Wing Commander Vijay Sethi photographed it on the 22nd and 23rd May 2010. He found the bird near Malik Talao in the heart of the park. He was accompanied by local naturalist - [Wildlife migration corridors from Ranthambhore](https://dickysingh.com/2009/11/11/wildlife-migration-corridors-from-ranthambhore/) - A few days ago I read the following news in the Times of India, one of India’s leading daily newspaper. It goes like this: Tigers will now roar at Darrah JAIPUR: After Ranthambore and Sariska, Darrah. Rajasthan is all set to get its third tiger reserve, and India its 39th, very soon. The National Tiger - [A great article](https://dickysingh.com/2009/11/02/a-great-article/) - Wildlife is on the brink by PANKAJ SEKHSARIA Wildlife is on the brink and it is high time we took a critical look at our conservation realities and policies. Most that share landscapes with wildlife, for instance, live extremely low impact lives yet they pay the biggest cost for conservation. Question of survival: Tribal settlements - [Interesting email exchange](https://dickysingh.com/2009/09/17/interesting-email-exchange/) - Interesting email exchange between Deepali and your truly. Deepali is a naturalist, photographer and economist from Delhi. I got her permission to share this on the blog. From: Deepali Sharma Sanwal Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 11:11:25 +0530 To: Aditya Singh Subject: hi from Delhi Hi Aditya Hello from Delhi. Read your blog.. wanted to - [Machali – 12 years old, an award winner and fighting fit](https://dickysingh.com/2009/04/27/machali-12-years-old-an-award-winner-and-fighting-fit/) - Two tigers - Machalia nd Star male - fighting over a kill in Ranthambore tiger reserve - [Update from Ranthambhore](https://dickysingh.com/2008/10/26/update-from-ranthambhore/) - It’s been a long time since I posted on the blog. I was on a long vacation and got back to Ranthambhore about 3 weeks ago and since then I have been busy trying to make a living. Yes some of us have to do that. Here are some updates from Ranthambhore: 1. The Park - [Tigress found dead in Ranthambhore](https://dickysingh.com/2008/09/03/tigress-found-dead-in-ranthambhore/) - Yesterday afternoon (1st September 2008) the carcass of a tigress was found in the Guda area, that lies at the southern end of the Ranthambore national park. This tigress was known as the Guda female (see image below) and was over 10 years old – an old age for wild tigers – and had two - [Ranthambhore – Sariska and tiger shuttle – Part II](https://dickysingh.com/2008/07/08/ranthambhore-sariska-and-tiger-shuttle-part-ii/) - ……….About a year ago the Rajasthan Forest Department declared that they would relocate tigers from Ranthambhore to Sariska to right the wrong. When they fist came out with this plan almost everyone (including me) laughed at it. Most people (not me this time) had declared Sariska as history. A few months after it came out - [Ranthambhore – Sariska and tiger shuttle – Part I](https://dickysingh.com/2008/07/08/ranthambhore-sariska-and-tiger-shuttle-part-i/) - About an hour ago I checked my mail and got a shock. There was this comment on my last post (Shooting with Andy Rouse) from Anubhav, who I presume is a person of Indian origin living in the USA. It goes something like this (for those who are too lazy to read the entire comment). - [Shooting with Andy Rouse](https://dickysingh.com/2008/07/05/shooting-with-andy-rouse/) - One great thing about living in Ranthambhore is that you end up meeting some of the best nature photographers in the world. I have been fortunate and have worked with some of the biggest names in nature photography. The best time I have ever had – fun and learning – was the two months or - [Indala Plateau – Final for this year](https://dickysingh.com/2008/06/13/indala-plateau-final-for-this-year/) - We finally got all the work in Indala finished and did it just in time. The monsoons have arrived here and the rains make most of the tracks to Indala impassable. All the three wells were dug some time ago, the waterholes are ready, the water recharging structures done and the Deputy Field Director has - [Indala Plateau](https://dickysingh.com/2008/03/12/indala-plateau/) - In my last post I had written about digging of wells and making waterholes in the Indala plateau. We just finished digging the third well and have got three water holes going already. The three wells were dug near non-perennial streams and in places where there were “small wells” (locally known as kui) on such - [Tiger, Tribals and others like us](https://dickysingh.com/2007/11/18/tiger-tribals-and-others-like-us/) - For the last few weeks there is this big debate going on in India between tiger conservationists and tribal activists. The more notable one worth reading are by Pankaj Sekhsaria of Kalpavriksh and Sunita Narain of Centre for Science and Environment. The problem with tiger conservation is that it is much more complicated that it - [Migration](https://dickysingh.com/2007/07/10/migration/) - Recently a judge in the Rajasthan High Court passed a ruling that Ranthambhore should be closed for 2 days in a week so that the animals can get "rest" from tourists. The Park is shut for tourists during the monsoons from July to end September. The people living around the park have a free run - [Machali’s story](https://dickysingh.com/2007/01/19/machalis-story/) - Machali is ranthambore tiger reserves best know tiger. She is the matriarch of ranthambhore and has had four litters in the last 16 years - [Sundarbans III](https://dickysingh.com/2006/11/13/sundarbans-iii/) - The rest of the National geographic crew – Sue (the big boss), Becky and Andy (the cameraman) landed in Calcutta by midnight. On the 1st of April we went to get shots of a male tiger in the Calcutta zoo. This tiger had killed a girl in a village that was just on the outskirts - [Sundarbans II](https://dickysingh.com/2006/10/27/sundarbans-ii/) - Sundarbans – the largest Project Tiger Reserve in India – is a tidal estuary where the only modes of travel are small to medium sized slow boats. It is truly a boat country. On the 25th of March, we went to the office of the Field Director of Sundarbans Tiger Reserve, which is in a - [Sundarbans I – The Hunter and the Hunted](https://dickysingh.com/2006/10/18/sundarbans-i-the-hunter-and-the-hunted/) - When I was in Bharatpur, I got a call from a guy from Bangalore called Lesley, who wanted to know if I would be interested in working on a two week project on Tigers of Sundarbans, , with the National geographic Film and Television department. He was the India co-coordinator for this project and told - [Bharatpur Birding](https://dickysingh.com/2006/10/17/bharatpur-birding/) - Bharatpur is small town (by Indian standards – which means a population of about 200,000 people) that is half way on the train route from Ranthambhore to Delhi. Bharatpur is home to one of the best bird sanctuaries in India – namely the Keola Deo Ghana National Park. I left for Bharatpur for a week - [February 2005](https://dickysingh.com/2006/10/17/february-2005/) - After the Operation Co-operation came to a premature end, all of us got pretty frustrated. I got back to my work, which is running a safari lodge an since February is a very busy month; I did not have time for any further activism. Dharmendra and Vakil (the Tiger watch team) took to some serious - [Operation Co-operation III](https://dickysingh.com/2006/10/17/operation-co-operation-iii/) - After our successful raid of 29th January 2005, where we busted Rajmal Mogiya (who much later on admitted to his involvement in the killing of 5 tigers), we were on top of the world. The paper work after the raid took all night to complete and we went to sleep around 10:00 AM the next - [Operation Co-operation II](https://dickysingh.com/2006/08/28/operation-co-operation-ii/) - On the 29th of January 2005, Vakil got some information about a Mogiya tribal – Rajmal -who was regularly killing and selling the meat of Sambar deer and Wild Boar, in Bhairopura village in the Man Singh Sanctuary, a part of the Ranthambore Tiger Reserve. We met the Deputy Field Director – Mr. Bhardwaj – - [Operation Co-operation I](https://dickysingh.com/2006/07/31/operation-co-operation-i/) - By the second week of January 2005, the Tiger watch team had started working on a presen-tation to highlight what they thought was wrong with the Ranthambore national park. They wanted to show this on a seminar of “WWF India” , which was to be held on 27th January in Delhi. The problems that they - [Sariska disclosure](https://dickysingh.com/2006/05/03/sariska-disclosure/) - By the middle of January 2005, it became public that there were no tigers left in Sariska ti-ger reserve in north-eastern Rajasthan. It was the Indian national daily – “Indian Express” - that first broke this news. Incidentally, this is the same newspaper, that had over a decade earlier broken the news about the Second - [The Third Tiger Crisis – 2003 onwards](https://dickysingh.com/2006/05/02/the-third-tiger-crisis-2003-onwards/) - The period between early 1990s (after the Second Tiger Crisis) and early 2000s was “by and large” a stable time for tigers in the Project Tiger Reserves. However, during this time tigers of a few reserves, particularly the ones that had insurgency and naxalite problem, such as Manas, Valmiki, Namdapha etc. got decimated. Besides the - [The Second Tiger Crisis – Early 1990s](https://dickysingh.com/2006/05/02/the-second-tiger-crisis-early-1990s/) - The Project Tiger had a very successful run from its inception to the late 1980s. However, after the heady early year, when the Project Tiger was a great success and it was clear that the tiger population was recovering, the project fell into widespread complacency until, in the early 1990s, tigers disappeared in the famous - [The First Tiger Crisis and Project Tiger](https://dickysingh.com/2006/05/02/the-first-tiger-crisis-and-project-tiger/) - It is estimated that there were nearly 40,000 tigers in the wild in India in 1900. Even if we consider this to be a slight exaggeration there were still a lot of tigers in India at that time. Today, according to the Government there are 3500 tigers but in reality there are less than 2000 - [Pratapgarh III](https://dickysingh.com/2006/04/30/pratapgarh-iii/) - Both Dharmendra and Amit have done their Ph.D. in Botany from Jaipur University, so they were very interested in the flora of southern Rajasthan (that’s where Pratapgarh is). I am not very good with my flora, at least compared to the two of them, so it was a great learning experience for me. I do - [Pratapgarh Part II](https://dickysingh.com/2006/04/30/pratapgarh-part-ii/) - The abandoned hut that we were living in was at the base of the Central Hillock, around which most of the kill had taken place. It was not really a hillock, it was more of a low plateau (called dang in Rajasthan). These dangs rise abruptly from flat ground and have sandstone ridges running almost - [Pratapgarh Part I](https://dickysingh.com/2006/01/17/pratapgarh-part-i/) - In the first week of December we left for Pratapgarh, in the Chittor district of Southern Rajasthan. This area has some highly degraded teak forests – most of which have been cut down by the local villagers. These forests hardly have any wildlife left but a few leopards do live in the area. We went - [October to November 2004](https://dickysingh.com/2005/12/29/october-to-november-2004/) - On the 1st of October 2004 the park reopened for tourists – the beginning of a new tourist season for Ranthambore national park. I remember the safari on the 1st morning. The park was lush green (it is like that only in the month of October) and all the waterholes were overflowing. I found a - [Monsoons 2004 – July to September](https://dickysingh.com/2005/12/22/monsoons-2004-july-to-september/) - Ranthambhore National Park, like all project Tiger Reserves in India, shuts down for visitors during the monsoons. Since Ranthambhore lies in Rajasthan – the driest Indian state – it only shuts down for three months of monsoons, from July to September. This is the most dangerous time for the big predators. Due to the monsoon - [Tiger Watch](https://dickysingh.com/2005/12/21/tiger-watch/) - Tiger Watch is an NGO (Non-Governmental Organization) based in Ranthambhore that is headed by Mr. Fateh Singh Rathore. If there is one person who should get the credit for setting up this park, it is this man in the picture below. He came to Ranthambhore in 1960 when it was still the private hunting ground - [The Mogiya Tribals](https://dickysingh.com/2005/12/21/the-mogiya-tribals/) - Mogiya is a tribe whose members have been hunters since a long time. They mainly inhabit the tracts from Sheopur district of the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh to the Gwalior district of the same state. This is a long tract of forested area along the banks of the river Chambal – the “bandit” - [The beginning – 2003](https://dickysingh.com/2005/12/21/the-beginning-2003/) - About three years ago (when G.V. Reddy left from here after serving as a Field Director) there were around 40 tigers, if not a few more. Reddy's departure got the poachers active again. Most of the big game poaching here is done by three group of tribal - the Mogiya's, Bagariya's and Kanjar's. Out of - [Build up to the Disaster of 2003 – 05](https://dickysingh.com/2005/12/08/build-up-to-the-disaster-of-2003-05/) - In the early 2003 Mr. G.V.Reddy left for higher studies to Mysore. At that time, all of us in Ranthambhore were firm in our opinion that there were over 40 tigers (including cubs) in the park. Towards the end of his tenure here, Reddy was promoted as the Field Director of the park. He was - [Tigers in Ranthambhore 1990s](https://dickysingh.com/2005/11/28/tigers-in-ranthambhore-1990s/) - After the disaster of 1990 – 91, Ranthambhore went through a phase of recovery that took over a decade. According to the State government after the poaching of 1990 – 91 there were 16 tigers left in the park. However, the reality was that there were barely 10 tigers left. Some people who have been - [Crisis of 1990-91](https://dickysingh.com/2005/11/28/crisis-of-1990-91/) - The end of 1980s was probably the best time for tigers in Ranthambhore. There were over 40 of them – which was amazingly high density for a park that is less than 400 square kilometers. People were coming from all over the world to see tigers. At that time Ranthambhore was definitely the best place - [Tigers in India and Ranthambhore Part II](https://dickysingh.com/2005/11/12/tigers-in-india-and-ranthambhore-part-ii/) - When the Project Tiger was launched in 1973, Ranthambhore was one of the first 9 reserves that was taken up under the project. At that time there were hardly any tigers in Ranthambhore. Mr. Fateh Singh Rathore of the Tiger Watch, who was the Director of Ranthambhore Tiger Reserve for a long time, was in-charge - [Tiger in India and Ranthambhore Part I](https://dickysingh.com/2005/11/12/tiger-in-india-and-ranthambhore-part-i/) - Before 1900s most of India had thick forest cover, a lot of prey for carnivores and as a result a large part of India was prime tiger habitat. Some “experts” have estimated that there were over 40,000 tigers in India at the “turn of the century. This may be a bit of an exaggeration but - [Part 2 – Background and History of Tiger conservation](https://dickysingh.com/2005/10/06/part-2-background-and-history-of-tiger-conservation/) - By the end of the first quarter of the 20th century, the need for conservation of forests was being felt all over India. The population was growing rapidly and the forests were coming under pressure. In Ranthambhore, the system of “royalty permits” for commercial felling (mainly for firewood and charcoal) of entire blocks of forests - [Background and History of Tiger conservation](https://dickysingh.com/2005/10/06/background-and-history-of-tiger-conservation/) - The Ranthambhore National Park, which is a part of the much larger Ranthambhore Tiger Reserve, lies in the Sawai Madhopur district of eastern Rajasthan. The river Chambal forms a natural boundary of the Park towards the east, and on the eastern shore of Chambal lies the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. 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