{"id":24819,"date":"2020-11-16T15:30:02","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T06:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2020\/nov\/16\/from-concrete-to-jungle-cartoonist-puts-mumbais-wildlife-on-the-map"},"modified":"2020-11-16T15:30:02","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T06:30:02","slug":"from-concrete-to-jungle-cartoonist-puts-mumbais-wildlife-on-the-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24819","title":{"rendered":"From concrete to jungle: cartoonist puts Mumbai&#8217;s wildlife on the map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian city is home to 20 million people but is also a place rich in biodiversity, with flamingos, leopards and black kites among its flora and fauna<\/p>\n<p>An Indian Ocean humpback dolphin swims beneath an Indo-Pacific octopus close to the coast, a gargantuan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2012\/oct\/07\/love-animals-atlas-moth-love\">atlas moth<\/a> flutters above Sanjay Gandhi national park, while an Asian palm civet shins up a tree near Vasai Creek and a black kite soars over a banyan tree. All are part of a vibrant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenhumour.com\/2020\/09\/biodiversity-map-of-mumbai.html\">new map of Mumbai<\/a> that showcases the Indian city\u2019s rich biodiversity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost people only think of Mumbai as a concrete jungle, with skyscrapers, slums and beach promenades, but scratch beneath the surface, and you will find a place of rich biodiversity,\u201d says Rohan Chakravarty, an award-winning wildlife cartoonist from Nagpur famous for cartoons that deal with the environment, conservation and wildlife, and creator of the Mumbai map.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2020\/nov\/16\/from-concrete-to-jungle-cartoonist-puts-mumbais-wildlife-on-the-map\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian city is home to 20 million people but is also a place rich in biodiversity, with flamingos, leopards and black kites among its flora and faunaAn Indian Ocean humpback dolphin swims beneath an Indo-Pacific octopus close to the coast, a gargan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1697,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[973,456,65,62,454,61,94,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biodiversity","category-conservation","category-environment","category-india","category-mumbai","category-south-and-central-asia","category-wildlife","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1697"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24820,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24819\/revisions\/24820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}