Tapping Traditional Watermills For Sustainable Energy Solutions
With increasing tourism, villages in the hilly state of Arunachal Pradesh are faced with an increased demand for seamless power...
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The Idu Mishmi Protect Ancestral Land Through Community Conservation
In June 2022, members of the Idu Mishmi community of Elopa and Etugu villages, Dibang valley, declared 70 square kilometres...
Reviving Millet To Reconnect A Community With Its Culinary Roots
With efforts from the women farmers of the Adi tribe in Arunachal Pradesh, traditionally grown and consumed anyat millet makes...
From Footnotes To The Forefront: In Gratitude To Field Assistants
Essential, but often unacknowledged, field work in wildlife and conservation biology in India has long been made possible by the...
Why Early Blooming Of Orchids In North-East Is Not Good News
In Assam, Bohag Bihu and the kopou phool — the Assamese new year and the foxtail orchid — have an...
Why Are The Idu Mishmis Resisting A Proposed Tiger Reserve In AP?
The plan to notify Dibang Wildlife Sanctuary in Arunachal Pradesh as a tiger reserve has caused unrest among the indigenous...
What’s Driving Hydropower Construction In AP?
Tone Mickrow, a member of the indigenous Idu Mishmi community, lives a few hours’ drive from Etalin – the proposed...
Etalin Decision A Chance To Reduce Harm From Dams In Arunachal
On 27 December 2022, the apex body at India’s Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) declined to give...
Protests Erupt In Assam After Flooding Event At NHPC Project
Protests were held in Assam's capital Guwahati and Lakhimpur on Tuesday after the collapse of a temporary guard wall in...
AP’s Wancho Community Sets Out To Digitise Ancient Folktales
The elders of the Wancho community in a remote district of Arunachal Pradesh have taken up the task of recording...
Oil Palm Pioneers Doubt Crop Will Take Off In Himalayan Foothills
As he talks about his 200-hectare oil palm plantation, Dature Miuli becomes visibly emotional. A passionate farmer and agro-entrepreneur in...
Opinion: Decision-Makers In AP Need To Take EIA Seriously
On 2 December 2021, the Parliament of India passed the Dam Safety Bill, 2019. This is cause for cautious hope....
‘Invented Names’: India On China Renaming 15 Places In Arunachal
India on Thursday strongly rejected China renaming some places in Arunachal Pradesh and asserted that the state has "always been"...
India Rejects Chinese Objection To VP Naidu’s Arunachal Visit
India on Wednesday strongly rejected China’s objection to a recent visit to Arunachal Pradesh by Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu, asserting...
‘Chinese Prez Visiting Tibet Is A Threat To India’
Chinese President Xi Jinping visiting Tibet last week is a threat to India, an influential US lawmaker has said, accusing...
How Himalayan Dams Turn Into Economic Burdens
by Rishika Pardikar/The Third Pole On April 23, 2020, the Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) of India’s environment ministry met to...
