Mahua Season

It's Mahua season in Indian forests! Cartoon for The Hindu Sunday Magazine.

Bats in Monuments

Bats in Indian monuments- a boon or bane? Comic from my column with The Hindu Sunday Magazine.

Mistle Thrush and Mistletoe

Merry Christmas to you from the Mistle Thrush, named after its favourite food, the mistletoe, which the bird also gardens! Comic for DW News. 

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. 

Nature Gratitude Week

A Nature Gratitude Week special from my column with Roundglass Sustain. 

World Binturong Day

Get acquainted with the Binturong on World Binturong Day! These bizarre bear-like civets are found across North-east India and South-east Asia. Comic from my column with Roundglass Sustain.

Nature Book Reviews by Wild Animals

Some wild bibliophiles review nature books in my column with Sunday Mid-Day. 

Fruit Bat Seed Dispersal

Fruit bats versus the Environment Ministry: who do you think would win? Cartoon from my column with Roundglass Sustain.

Coronavirus and Bats

Bats don't give us Coronavirus. Our ill-treatment of bats gives us various diseases. Comic from my column with RoundGlass Sustain, and a humble attempt at dispelling a myth that may be potentially harmful to bats, by this exasperated Flying Fox.

I have also translated this comic into Hindi here:

The comic in Spanish (translation by Farah Carrasco)

The comic in Bengali (translation by Swarupa Chakraborty)-

Bahasa Indonesian translation courtesy of Susan Tsang and Sheherazade

Tamil translation courtesy of P. Jeganathan

Marathi translation courtesy of Pooja Pawar.

Hornbills of the World

Hornbills, among the most enigmatic of tropical birds, are named so after the cow-horn shape of their bills. Most species are characterized by the presence of a casque on their bills. Hornbills are crucial to the functioning of forests, as they are among the most efficient dispersers of figs and a variety of other fruit trees. The 62 species of hornbills are spread across Africa, South and South-east Asia, the Southern Ground Hornbill being the largest, and the Red-billed Dwarf Hornbill the smallest. Many species, specially in South-east Asia are severely threatened because of hunting and habitat loss, the most endangered ones being the Helmeted, Sulu and Walden's Hornbills.

Know your hornbill species in this king-sized poster! Prints and a wide range of merchandise are available on my webstore here. 

For orders within India, the items available and prices are as follows:

A0 Poster (synthetic non-tearable, loose)- Rs. 3500 for the first print, Rs. 3000 for the second print onwards

A1 Posters (synthetic non-tearable, loose)- Rs. 3000 for the first print, 2500 for the second print onwards

A2 Posters (synthetic non-tearable, loose)- Rs. 1200 for the first print, 1000 for the second print onwards

Loose Posters (A3- Individual species and compilation)- Rs. 500 for the first copy and Rs. 200 for the second copy onwards

Tshirts (individual species/compilation)- Rs. 1300 (White, Cotton, roundneck, sizes- S,M,L,XL) 
Email me on rohanchakcartoonist@gmail.com to order your prints (mentioning the number of prints and your complete postal address) to place your orders.

A big thanks to Lucy Kemp of the Mabula Hornbill Conservation Project for gifting me a copy of the wonderful book 'Hornbills of the World' (Poonswad, Kemp, Strange) which served as my reference for drawing this poster!

How Dung Beetles Roll

A comic poster on Dung Beetles from my column with Saevus magazine. Prints of the poster are available on my webstore here (for orders within India, email me on rohanchakcartoonist@gmail.com). 

Ease of Doing Business

Ecosystem engineers and 'ease of doing business'. From my column with Sunday Mid-day.

Bird Perches in Degraded Forests

I was commissioned by Dr. Claire Wordley of Conservation Evidence to do a comic on an experiment conducted by scientists in Araucaria forests in Brazil, where they found out that just placing bird perches in degraded habitat could result in increased species richness of seedlings and reforestation!

You can check out more on their website here.

Some Facts about Hornbills

From seed dipersers to gardeners of rainforests to partners-in-crime with mongooses- here are some facts about hornbills, some of which you may not have known before.

The comic appears in my page with Saevus Magazine this month. The prints are available as posters in A3 and A2 sizes. E-mail me on rohanchakcartoonist@gmail.com to order your prints (or visit my webstore for orders outside of India).