To work in nature conservation is to battle a headwind of bad news. When the overwhelming picture indicates the natural…
Colonisation of the forests devastated them and their inhabitants, the forest dwellers and wildlife. To rein in the recalcitrant state…
Indian ecologist and international environment policy expert S. Faizi awarded the Alliance World of Scientists (AWS) 2024 Planet Earth Awards…
In June 2022, members of the Idu Mishmi community of Elopa and Etugu villages, Dibang valley, declared 70 square kilometres…
Kokkarebellur, a small village in Karnataka, hosts thousands of migratory spot-billed pelicans and painted storks annually, showcasing exemplary human-animal coexistence.…
A long-term study of the hangul population in and around the Dachigam National Park confirms that despite protection, the species…
A team of researchers from India and Japan have found water droplets trapped in mineral deposits in the Kumaon mountains…
Breaking new ground along with gender barriers, India has seen many pioneering women biologists who stepped out to explore and…
The indigenous peoples’ engagements with forests are based on respect, responsibility, trust and relationships whereas the modern, post-colonial protected areas…
Clouded leopards have developed nuanced coexistence strategies to survive in the wild by having a peak activity time that does…
Seventy-eight out of 1353 bird species in India are endemic to the country; three of them are critically endangered, according…
A powerful earthquake that hit close to the medieval city of Marrakech in Morocco on Sept. 8, 2023, has killed…
The small village of Latpanchar, located next to Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary in the Himalayan foothills of India’s West Bengal state,…
At dawn on a Sunday in July, a group of five people are arriving at Dachigam National Park, tucked into…
In 2017, a camera installed on the fringes of Corbett Tiger Reserve in northern India photographed an unsuspecting woman. The…
New research shows that India’s tiger conservation policy has not only helped in preserving and increasing tiger populations, but it…
Fifty years after the launch of Project Tiger in India, the country hosts 75% of the world’s wild tigers, with…
The amendment to the Forest Conservation Act passed through the committee phase last week. It is likely to be tabled…
Sunil Harsana says he always knew there were paintings in the caves near his home in Mangar, a village on…
The people of Kerala will probably never forget this defining visual from earlier this year – the aerial view of…
In conservation practice, how are protected areas identified and delineated? The first step in this is to be able to…
The picturesque Munnar in Kerala, with its lush green tea gardens carpet rolling hills, sits at the south of biodiversity…
Deep in the forests of the south Indian Western Ghats, adivasis say there is a time to be silent and…
It’s been about two months since The Elephant Whisperers won the best documentary short film award at the Oscars and…
Source: PTI Majority of Himalayan glaciers analysed are melting or retreating at varying rates in different regions, the government has…
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