2022 too short, too far: DTE’s top wildlife stories of the year
Down To Earth recaps the primary environment, health and developmental news from 2022
The hunt in Mudumalai: Missteps during 2021 tiger capture hold lessons
The successful live capture of MDT23 was a daunting task marred by missteps and challenges. By recounting the operation, I hope to inspire …
Critical Wildlife Habitat guidelines issued; NTCA order superseded
Forest rights activists criticise Ministry of Tribal Affairs' decision to accept the guidelines without making any revisions or inviting comments …
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 9, 2020)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
With 274 tiger deaths in four years, India records highest toll between two censuses
Almost half of tiger deaths in the last three years were reported outside tiger reserves
Study offers clues on ecological gain of weeding out Lantana
Researchers look into effect of removing invasive bush in Madhya Pradesh’s critical tiger conservation site
India now has 1,706 tigers
At the last count their number was 1,411; experts doubt latest census
MoEF&CC chooses minerals over biodiversity, clears rail track in Western Ghats despite red flags
The Hospet-Vasco Da Gama project has the potential to “damage the integrity of the last remaining wilderness of the Western Ghats” …
Tigers and tribals: Conservation project displaced 18,493 families in 48 yrs
The displacements happened from critical tiger habitats, according to RTI response accessed by DTE
We need conservation frameworks that empower, incorporate forest dwelling communities
The history of Project Tiger, which completed 50 years this year, reveals systemic exclusion of oppressed caste forest-dwelling communities
Wildlife tour operators, resorts to shell out conservation fee
Fund so collected will be spent on conserving forests, managing human-wildlife conflict and generating livelihood for local communities
US tiger coronavirus positive; wildlife and zoo alert in India
Zoo keepers not to be allowed in vicinity of animals without safety gear
‘Hong Kong’s lost tigers show us a species once gone, cannot return’
Down To Earth speaks to journalist John Saeki about his upcoming book on the lost tigers of Hong Kong
Maharashtra’s indigenous Warlis teach a lesson about peaceful coexistence with leopards
Locals report multiple safe encounters with the wild cats in the region
A violent forest
Reconciling conservation and livelihoods in Sundarban mangroves
Eco-tourism guidelines submitted in court misleading: MoEF panel members
Request minister’s intervention on eve of hearing in Supreme Court
Bihar man-eater shot: Here is when an order can be given to put down such an animal
If a tiger / leopard begins to seek out, stalk and wait for human beings and has, after killing a person, eaten the dead body, it is established …
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (January 8, 2020)
‘Man-eater’ tiger on prowl on Kerala-Tamil Nadu border
Kerala government issues order to kill the tiger following killing of two persons
Supreme Court gives Centre time till September 27 to review tiger tourism guidelines
Till then ban on tourism in core tiger habitats will prevail
Escalating tiger-human conflict haunts Karnataka’s Mysuru, Chamarajanagar districts. Is big cat population spike to blame?
Five deaths reported in last three months
Reinvent tiger conservation
The new conservation agenda should not revolve around tigers versus tribals. It has to be about tigers and people
India’s tiger population bounces to 2,226 from a low of 1,411
Tiger census 2014 says cause for worry now is declining tiger populations in northern Andhra Pradesh, Odisha and Jharkhand
MoEF pulled up for flip-flop on tiger tourism
Government more worried about commercial activities being hit than safety of tigers: Supreme Court
Corridors of uncertainty
Saving corridors connecting big cat habitats is a must