India, March 26 -- With March almost at an end, the dog days of the Bengaluru summer are upon us. As the bright yellow copperpod blooms replace the pale pink clusters of tabebuia rosea on the skyline, it is only appropriate that we acknowledge two important March 'days' - March 3, World Wildlife Day, and March 21, International Day of Forests.

It is also the perfect opportunity to remember an extraordinary individual who straddled both those concerns- Sethuram Gopalrao (SG) Neginhal, an award-winning wildlife photographer, conservationist, and forest officer, who not only spent a lifetime tramping through the jungles of Karnataka but was also responsible for leading a massive tree-planting campaign in the 1980s that brought the green - a...