Founders Note
Hermis Haridas & Nisha Purushothaman
Introducing yet another initiative in our third year of existence: PT Aware – the sister magazine to PT Explorers.
The primary objective of Paws Trails is to be the voice for the voiceless and spread awareness about problems animal populations face and the issues associated with vanishing habitats. When the PT core group met for a discussion, at the Paws Trails International Wildlife festival in Dubai, we decided to ramp up our awareness building activities. As such PT Aware was born – a short crisp magazine that would be published in the months between editions of our flagship magazine, PT Explorers. Each edition will be a focused publication, highlighting conservation issues for one, or a related group of species, habitat or environmental issue. Of course, the stunning photographs that our readers expect will also be present.
Similar to our other projects, we would like this to be a community project, with inputs from the large Paws Trails community of contributors and readers. We believe that success on conservation efforts is based on large-scale community participation, and hence we take this opportunity to thank our many contributors. Your undying commitment has allowed us to remain a true community powered project. We reiterate our commitment to get maximum viewership for your images and produce articles to highlight conservation issues.
PT Aware will strive to bring the latest scientific perspective within each article. We hope to instill the spirit of inquiry and the will to explore among our readers around the world. The broader community should explore the wild, and thereby experience first-hand the beauty of Mother Earth. In doing so, we appeal to your humane side to be wary of the impacts of man-made activities that disturb the natural ecosystem of the wild. Feel free to ask us about our many photographic expeditions in which we encourage photographers to use their skills to promote conservation.
Thank you for supporting PT explorers in the last two years and we expect that you will enjoy PT Aware as much as we love putting it together for you.
Let us hold our hands together for this new journey!
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Hermis Haridas & Nisha Purushothaman
Founders – Paws Trails Explorers