The secret garden

Want to know about a lost variety of rice or a cure to asthma? Answers lie in the notebooks of schoolchildren and women of the Sundarbans and …

It’s still open season for bio-piracy

Rich nations block accord on benefit-sharing rules for the world’s genetic resources

Amendment without correction

Mines and minerals amendment bill falls short of meaningful reform

Forestry, the Mexican way

Knowledge initiative on Agriculture bad for farmers

Time a resource curse got lifted

No freeloaders

Give us 18 sq km

Forest paradox

To give forest dwellers their due rights, forest governance must go beyond the environment and include the communities at stake

Our quality of mercy

Letters

Disclosure-shy industry

Pharma and biotech firms are lobbying hard to block disclosure of origin of genetic material used in inventions, but they also raise thorny issues

‘Forest department is the encroacher’

When V Kishore Chandra Deo became the Union Minister for Panchayati Raj and Tribal Affairs three months ago, both the ministries were in inertia.…

Forest value to be revised

50 per cent of net present value of forests should go to communities, says report

Tawa Matsya Sangh, fishing co-operative in Madhya Pradesh, loses licence

Can we afford not to change?

In the name of the tiger

The current conservation model has led to increased human-wildlife conflicts

Biodiversity body claims coal

In a first-of-its-kind case, a biodiversity committee in Madhya Pradesh asks for royalty on coal

Tiger reserved

Tiger tourism booms without proper regulation; new guidelines attempt to contain damage

Class room

How bamboo was liberated

Vedanta and lessons in conservation

Struck at the root

Livelihood of 2,000 families is threatened as the Maharashtra forest department tries to ban extraction of lotus roots

Wealth of forests withheld

Forest departments across the country owe millions of rupees to communities. For 20 years communities toiled under the Joint Forest Management …

Green rupee in a mess