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They can also use some nitrogen inorganic products to generate energy such as nitrate and ammonia which are toxic products for humans. He refused to sign any forms that allowed us to progress in our journeys to university, so Mum used to forge his signature. Tropical thorn forests occupy areas in various parts of the country, though mainly in the northern Gangetic Plain and southern peninsular India.

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A deep natural-historical knowledge, especially in terms of flora; the profound tenderness and compassion that he extends towards the more-than-human world; and the brilliant analytical capacity that often sets him thinking against the grain. Additionally, there is another classification depending on the original land of the plants; native flora and non-native flora. I half doze off in front of the television, and I’m back in the room where I watched it in Berkhamsted. In his 1975 series The World About Us he points out: “In waste patches and factory backyards, in gasworks and railway sidings, nature fights back, for without meaning to we have created in our cities a vast prefabricated reserve for wildlife…” He showed black redstarts living in bomb sites and gasworks, and speculated that hundred-year old seeds had been turned over by local bulldozers, allowing long-lost plants to flower again. Native flora includes plants growing in a region by instinct or by themselves without being planted by humans.b) Bryophytes: this type has a differentiated body design but this type does not have a transport system that is responsible for the conduction of the water in the plant. But later, over a glass of white wine, sitting outside for a coronavirus-age, al fresco lunch, he adds, “What I will say is that in much modern nature writing there is a tendency to view the natural world as a kind of magic globe in which to view oneself. I couldn’t understand my feelings: they were numinous, almost, but it was physical, made my legs tremble. At that point, instead of going “to a kind of halfway house” he went to stay with childhood friends in Blakeney in Norfolk.

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The long-snouted gavial, or gharial ( Gavialis gangeticus), a species similar to the crocodile, is endemic to northern India; it is found in a number of large rivers, including the Ganges and Brahmaputra and their tributaries. Among the primates are various monkeys, including rhesus monkeys and gray, or Hanuman, langurs ( Presbytis entellus), both of which are found in forested areas and near human settlements. Animals related to Australian fauna include birds such as cockatoos, bowerbirds, and birds of paradise, as well as marsupials such as bandicoots (small insectivorous, herbivorous marsupial mammals) and cuscuses (brightly coloured, woolly-haired arboreal marsupials). The only ape found in India, the hoolock gibbon, is confined to the rainforests of the eastern region.In his ability to look very hard, and very closely, at the natural world, Mabey has something in common with Andrew Marvell, whose retreat to a Yorkshire country house after the execution of Charles I produced two years of startling nature poetry. Lion-tailed macaques of the Western Ghats, with halos of hair around their faces, are becoming rare because of poaching. India forms an important segment of what is known as the Oriental, or Sino-Indian, biogeographic region, which extends eastward from India to include mainland and much of insular Southeast Asia. The most important vegetation type is the mixed lowland and hill tropical rainforest, which occurs below 5,000 feet (1,500 metres).

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Then there’s the more serious depression, which is not so much about me, but about the world, and I think that it’s creative – or at least, I hope it is – because I suppose I’m a bit of a contrarian about the idea that nature is always there to make you well. People who’ve been, however marginally, a carer, have very complicated emotions when they are released. Peacocks (peafowl) are also common, especially in Gujarat and Rajasthan, where they are kept as pets.There are more than 3,000 tree species, including durian, which bears large, armoured, odorous yet edible fruit; sandalwood; Shorea macrophylla, which yields illipe nuts, a fruit that contains a fat substance similar to cocoa butter; and valuable timber varieties such as teak and ironwood.