Khairul Laskar, Doctoral Student, Department of Chemistry, AMU

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   ‘Sea Trees’ offer protected city-living to wildlife. A Dutch architectural firm has come up with a plan to give birds, insects and sea life new, protected habitats along city waterways and has set its sights set on Mumbai or New York for the prototype. Let's face it - we're doing a horrible job at coexisting with wildlife. As cities are becoming more and more uninhabitable for the species that inhabited the land long before us, as development pushes them farther and farther out into rapidly reducing forests and woodlands. It's even thought to be the reason diseases such as Nipah, Hendra, Ebola, Marburg, and SARS spread from wild bats to farm animals to us. Few months back, it was reported that populations of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish have declined by an average of 52 percent over the past 40 years, with freshwater species down by a staggering 76 percent. Each level of the tree-shaped platforms would support a different type of habitat, right down to a coral reef at the bottom, if the climate permits. Birds could come and go as they please, and build nests away from people, traps and roads. Cities aren't going anywhere any time soon, so ideas like this are going to become increasingly important.

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