The Many Faces of Climate Change

The worsening impacts of climate change on the world week after week and month after month, have been exposing the hypocrisy of world leaders with their stance on fossil fuels. Comic from my column with The Hindu Sunday Magazine.

Climate Emojis for a Changing World

Pick your climate emoji! Cartoon for DW Global Ideas.

What's at Stake at COP15

Green Humour debuted on DW News, Europe's leading news channel this week, with a comic on why the Biodiversity COP should matter to me and you. Read the piece on DW here. 

COP 27 and COP 15

A Moose from Canada and a Dorcas Gazelle from Egypt discuss COP Biodiversity and COP 27 on Nature TV News. Comic from my column with The Hindu Sunday Magazine.

Here's another cartoon about why COP Biodiversity should matter to us, available royalty free on my Cartoonstock gallery. 

Great Bear Rainforest Habitat Illustration

One of the most unique landscapes on earth where temperate rainforests meet the sea, Great Bear Rainforest in British Columbia, Canada, is a mystical forest.  And this mystique transcends boundaries between land, water and air, and those between wildlife and native communities. The First Nations People of Canada that call the rainforest their home, have been fiercely safeguarding the forests from industrial logging and oil and gas companies. The rainforest is inhabited by many animals sacred to the First Nations People, such as the Spirit Bear (a rare sub-species of the American Black Bear in which some individuals are coloured white!), the Raven, the Bald Eagle, many species of Salmon, and of course, cetaceans like the Humpback and Fin Whales, and Orcas. As a result of rainforest meeting the sea, various interactions that are usually unheard of are witnessed here, such as enormous tracts of cedar and spruce meeting waters ruled by kelp forests, bears and wolves preying on spawning salmon, seals and sea otters bumping into wolverines and minks!

Other than its myriad flora and fauna, the illustration also depicts a First Nations couple in ethnic attire that celebrates the spirit of the animals they worship, veteran whale biologists Janie Wray and Hermann Meuter, who run the Cetacea Lab at Great Bear. Thanks to the Save Our Seas Foundation for commissioning the illustration.

Meet the Spirit Bear

I was recently assigned to create an illustration for the Great Bear Rainforest (British Columbia, Canada), when I learned about the Spirit Bear. This unique bear, a resident of temperate rainforests, is revered by the First Nations people, who believe that Raven, the Creator, created the spirit bear in memory of the frozen white glaciers of the ice ages! Why exactly some Spirit Bears are white in colour is still being researched, but some scientists speculate that it could be an evolutionary adaptation to catch salmon more successfully!

The comic appears in my column with The Hindu. My thanks to Michael Scholl of the Save our Seas Foundation for introducing me to this amazing animal! I hope I can see it in the wild some day.