Why India needs to revise its forest cover targets

Tree plantations by the State forest departments are driven by national policies and forest cover targets; here is why they should be revised

Climate change & wildlife: How focused monitoring of distribution, population trends can help conservation efforts

Data limitation on species occurrence, evironmental parameters main hurdle for ecologists

India was a tree planting laboratory for 200 years — here are the results

Colonial era experiments on forests between 1857 and 1947 offer important lessons on consequences of different approaches to restoring …

Cheetah reintroduction project shows conservation sciences need more rigour and consensus

Carnivore conservation in human-dominated landscapes requires more than expertise of wildlife biologists

Action on climate change: Environmental activism or citizen lobby?

Scientific evidences alone cannot suffice, public policy decisions on climate must be made after careful assessments of economic costs and benefits

Healthy reserves key for tiger conservation

Population of big cats is declining in states that has much of its geographical area under forest cover — Chhattisgarh (44.1%), Jharkhand (…

Chennai’s water crisis: A lesson for Indian cities

As India’s urban population is set to increase, the need is to consider water resource availability and carrying capacity of cities in …

Can India’s cities accommodate climate migrants?

Our urban areas need to have appropriate development policies and programmes to accommodate those displaced by climate change

Climate change knowledge management in India

India’s climate adaptation needs are high but also diverse, given the bio-geographic and climate variations

There’s need for city-level climate actions

Indian cities need climate action plans that are implementable and have necessary financial, institutional and policy support