Feather touch conservationist

Common science

A website helps people observe and understand nature while gathering scientific data

Nurseries of ancestor worship

A green festival acquires commercial colour

The great biodiversity vanishing trick

Living with lions

Village throws a googly

Remote Eklehara has challenged what can be classified as a bio-resource and who should benefit from its use

Flame in the rainforest

LATHA JISHNU discovers how indigenous communities in Ecuador are fighting to protect Amazonia from oil extraction

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 …

Paying farmers for ecological services

Common concerns

As the commons come under increasing assault, academics, practitioners and policymakers come together to devise ways to protect shared resources

Pursuing a nationalist IPR policy

India has enough laws to protect its intellectual property rights. It is the implementation that is wanting

An ecological triumph goes sour

Kerala celebrates silver jubilee of the Silent Valley project, but dismisses conservation measures

Biodiversity—India’s other scandal

CAG slams the national biodiversity authority for allowing questionable patents

The hunt for benefits

India is hailed as a pioneer in implementing the third objective of the Convention on Biological Diversity—fair and equitable sharing of …

Division of labour

How biodiversity helps clean pollutants in water and soil

Romancing the trees

After trees of Delhi, filmmaker and tree lover Pradip Krishen finds his muse in Central Indian forests

Tree cheers

Fig and peepal aid natural reforestation

Living on the edge

Konkan to get village-level biodiversity action plans

UNDP and Maharasthra government to prepare plans in consultation with gram sabhas,panchayats

Two worlds that never meet

Video Essay>> Dont cut my head off • by Somnath Batabyal, Matti Pohjonen, Kazimuddin Ahmed and Pradip Saha • produced in …

Save nature, do nothing

In some cases, doing nothing is the way to preserve ecology

Reference guide on the national parks and sanctuaries in Maharashtra

Less species, more diseases

Researchers blame increased human population

Baiga agriculture can solve problems that plague modern systems

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Biodiversity buffer

It can protect dryland from withering due to climate change