About ForestStar
ForestStar is slow, occasionally irregular, and entirely honest. It is one person's attempt to make wildlife and nature accessible, without drama, without clickbait, and without losing what makes it worth noticing in the first place.
Like many children of the nineties, Jayottam grew up glued to wildlife documentaries, Steve Irwin wrangling crocodiles, Sir David Attenborough narrating the quiet drama of the natural world. It wasn't just entertainment. It planted something.
Through school years, those documentary images translated into real visits, India's national parks, on whatever a student budget could stretch to. Uncomfortable buses, shared rooms, early mornings. The forests didn't disappoint. They never do.
What started as weekend curiosity became a vocation. Jayottam joined the Forest Service and spent years as a Ranger in the Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove delta, home to Royal Bengal Tigers, saltwater crocodiles, and tides that reshape the land overnight. It was fieldwork in one of the most ecologically complex places on earth.
Today, Jayottam works at the intersection of remote sensing and scientific forest management, using satellite data and Earth Observation tools to understand how forests change, persist, and disappear. ForestStar runs alongside this, as a parallel effort: simpler, slower, and aimed at anyone who hasn't yet had a reason to look up and notice the cranes and geese crossing the evening sky.
Criticism, feedback, suggestions, and reader love, all of it is welcome. If this inspires even a few more people to stop, look up, and wonder what those birds are called, that's more than enough.