24 new sites join UNESCO’s World Network of Biosphere Reserves

A biosphere reserve is a site destined to reconcile the conservation of biodiversity and human activity through the sustainable use of natural …

CAMBODIA

Twice cursed

VIETNAM

"Many want to gain from India's experience"

While India's rule-of-the-fist wildlife conservation programmes focus on protection, UNESCO's Man and Biosphere Programme seeks to lay emphasis …

Good doctor, poor medicine

The TSR Subramanian committee made no effort to safeguard environment security. It’s pro-industry bias was never in question

Our environment, our decision

UNESCO declares world’s first 5-country biosphere reserve in ‘Amazon of Europe’

The 1-million hectare Mura-Drava-Danube is the now the largest riverine protected area in Europe

World's biodiversity needs to be preserved

Biodiversity - the billions of life forms that exist on earth - ranges in size from microscopic be viruses to blue whales that are more than 30 …

Elephantine blues

A rise in the elephant population in the Chandaka reserve forests raises the basic question of ecological management keeping human needs in mind

South korea

A very summary preparation

Citizen's Report On Environment And Development, Sri Lanka, To UNCED 1992 Public Campaign On Environment and Development, Colombo Pakistan …

Atmospheric implications of burning forests

Global Biomass Burning -- Atmospheric, Climatic, and Biospheric Implications Edited by: Joel S Levine Publisher: The MIT Press, Cambridge, …

Odisha government proposes state’s second biosphere reserve at Mahendragiri

The Mahendragiri hills host a rich biodiversity of fauna and flora and are part of the Eastern Ghats

Crisis in the Konkan

Creating biosphere reserves, which reconcile the interests of wildlife and humans, may save the Konkan coast

Stop gatecrashing

PepsiCo endangers biodiversity hotspot in Gulf of Mannar

Should conservation be privatised?

Since the late 1960s, many African countries, including Zimbabwe, Namibia, Botswana and South Africa, have adopted a new approach to conservation.…

Mini Nilgiri reserve

Agasthyamala included in UNESCO's World Network of Biosphere Reserve

The Agasthyamala Biosphere Reserve comprises of tropical forests and is home to 2,254 species of higher plants including about 400 that are …

Silence broken, again

The Kerala government makes yet another attempt to destroy the tranquillity of the Silent Valley

SOUTH AFRICA

Reserved to death

Cleared at cost of biodiversity

Environment ministry clears hydro project rejected twice by its advisory committee

How well are funds spent on sanctuaries and zoos

Central Information Commission wants a impact assessment report by November