Nitin Sethi

Independent journalist

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A timely compendium

Breach bared

Dam tunnel collapse in Arunachal begs explanation

Co-operation is odious

Is this the moral of the NBSAP spat?

Forest ministry favours intrusion

The biggest threat protected areas across the country face right now is from their purported protector -- the Union ministry of environment and …

Full-scale review of poverty

What is poverty? The Planning Commission is set to undertake an exercise to find a quantifiable answer to the question. It has proposed to the …

Book review: Inventing Global Ecology by Michael Lewis

In the 1950s and 1960s India used to import not only subsidised sewing needles and milk, but also wildlife conservation science from the US. …

Can the Northeast become a trade hub?

Or, will they be mere transit points?

Shortchanged

What ails the economies of the eight northeastern states? The warped fiscal policies of the Union government

Second look

Wildlife project under review

Shelved!

Sale of African ivory stocks

Ineffective

Protected areas fail as refuge

Back to basics

Saviour of songs

Forest facts: delving deeper

'Green Indicators 2004' makes government's complex and unwieldy forest statistics coherent

Lost lands and forgotten people

Organic states

Mizoram passes legislation to go fully organic, Sikkim already on the path

Lucky 13?

Will CITES become an endangered convention? Can it redefine its relevance?

Observing jungle laws

The first historico-legal analysis of forestry regulations in Northeast India

Sapped

National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan

Nailing the lie of the land

Overshadowed

CITES proceeds cautiously, in the wake of the Convention on Biological Diversity

Looming largesse

World Bank mulls India's first loan for tribal populations; to bypass forest department

Mission impossible?

The sheer scope of the biodiversity action plan may militate against its successful implementation

Improving human-elephant relations

Has forest cover really increased?

The provisional figures for India's forest cover are now ready, and Down To Earth has managed to acquire a copy. The figures, when compared to …

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