Cartoons for COP 30 Resilience Hub

Joining online from India, I drew cartoons for the Global Resilience Partnership's COP 30 Resilience Hub . The sessions encompassed a wide variety of discussions, collaboration AND action. Here are some of the cartoons from the COP30 below-

To view the entire gallery, click here. And to watch the session recordings, visit the COP Resilience Hub Youtube channel. 

A huge thanks to Anastasia Brainich and Karen Bennie of the Global Resilience Partnership for the continued association!

Environmentalists Under Threat

Reports indicate that environmental defenders were killed at the rate of one every day last year, with Colombia emerging the most unsafe nation in the world to be an environmentalist in! Catching up fast with Colombia are other nations in Lat Am, South-east Asia and India.

Green Humour for DW Environment.

Amazonian Droughts and Amazonian Dolphins

In more climate-change-induced panic this week, a heatwave records as well as hearts were shattered in Brazil’s Lake Tefe, with hundreds of Botos (Amazonian River Dolphins) reported dead. Carcasses also included those of the Tucuxi (Grey Dolphin) and thousands of fish. The deaths are estimated to have reduced the already endangered Boto population by 10% (report here).

Cartoon from my Gocomics page, also available royalty-free on my Cartoonstock gallery.

Climate Emojis for a Changing World

Pick your climate emoji! Cartoon for DW Global Ideas.

Sloth Species

It's Sloth Saturday! Know your sloth species in this new poster. Prints and merchandise available on my Happywagon webstore for orders within India, and on my Redbubble webstore for orders worldwide.

The Ecuadorian Lasso on Rainforests

Rainforests in Ecuador could well go the Brazil way if the right-wing government of Guillermo Lasso is allowed to have its way, where Chinese oil extraction companies are being granted licenses for exploration, overlooking indigenous land rights. Cartoon from my column with The Hindu Sunday Magazine.

Monkey faced Orchid

Have you started the new year by telling a loved one that they're good-looking? If you haven't yet, just share this comic with them! Meet the monkey-faced orchid from Ecuador, in my column with Sunday Mid-Day. 

Elisa Loncon and the Chilean Constitution

On Elisa Loncon, an indigenous Mapuche political leader leading the convention to rewrite Chile's constitution with indigenous principles at its centre. Comic from my column with The Hindu. 

Galapagos Marine Reserve Habitat Illustration

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Easily one of the top 10 in my list of places to see before I die, the Galapagos Archipelago, besides being the very cradle of the evolution of evolutionary science, houses a magical range of biodiversity! And thanks to the Save Our Seas Foundation, I got an opportunity to illustrate what a typical panorama at the Galapagos Marine Reserve looks like. From blood-sucking Vampire Finches to diving Boobies, from the algae-munching Marine Iguana to the cactus-loving Land Iguana, from tiny endemic catsharks to massive Humpback Whales; you'll find them all this gigantic illustration that appears along side a piece on Galapagos in the SOSF magazine. Find the magazine online here. 

Special thanks to Jade Schulz, Pelayo Salinas and James Lea from the Save our Seas Foundation for commissioning the piece and for guiding me through it. 

Inspiring Environmental Leadership from Around the World

Inspiring environmental leadership from around the world, featuring Costa Rica's Carlos Alvarado Quesada, New Zealand's Jacinda Ardern, Belize's Johnny Briceno, and India's UN Champion of the Earth! Cartoon from my column with The Hindu.