Chambal's land leveling experiment leads to socio-economic disruption

The ravines of Chambal used to provide multiple livelihood options for its poor and marginal farmers. Leveling of land is triggering conflicts …

समतल बीहड़, खतरा या अवसर

प्राकृतिक स्थिति से छेड़छाड़ की वजह से चंबल नदी में गाद और बाढ़ का खतरा बढ़ने की आशंका है। 

Ravines of Chambal : taking back the badlands

Down to Earth looks at how ravines are affecting villages in Chambal and how communities in this region are involved in recovering these lands

At a blind bend

The Madhya Pradesh government has over and again failed to reclaim the ravines of Chambal Valley. Will it succeed this time?

Gharials of Chambal

The Gharial Conservation Program is one of India's best faring wildlife conservation efforts. R K Sharma, an officer at the Gharial breeding …

Four Chambal dams stopped

Tender notice for common sense

Police seize 4,000 tonnes of sand mined from gharial sanctuary

There have been four attacks by the sand mafia on State Armed Forces' jawans protecting the Chambal river banks in the last three months, says …

कहीं रूठ न जाए शिवना...  

भू-जल और पानी की उपलब्धता को बनाए रखने वाली शिवना नदी यदि रूठ गई तो मंदसौर के निवासी जलसंकट से अभिशप्त हो जाएंगे।

Soil erosion triggers ravine expansion in Gujarat

Ravines have increased by 60-70 per cent in four districts of Gujarat in the last 4-5 decades and this threatens agriculture and livelihood there

मालवा की मानव निर्मित मौत  

मालवा क्षेत्र में पर्याप्त मात्रा में वन होने, मिट्टी में जैविक पदार्थों की पर्याप्त मात्रा के होने से इस क्षेत्र की भूमि में आर्द्रता का ...

Studying gharials

More than 5,000 gharials born in Chambal sanctuary

Although many may not survive their first year, conservationists are delighted that their efforts have borne fruit

कायदा तोड़ने में फायदा

रेत खनन को नियंत्रित करने के लिए बने नए नियम असरदार साबित नहीं हो रहे हैं। नदियों के किनारे अवैध खनन बेरोकटोक जारी है। 

Glimpses into life in the Chambal

Chambal's unique ecology has made it home to more than 500 species of mammals, birds, fish and reptiles. More than 30 of them are in IUCN's Red …

Endangered gharials die mysterious death

Stones tell a story

Clueless in Chambal

Forgotten people Chambal's Bor Khedi villagers are still called the criminal tribe

A 138 km pipe dream

Tilapia fish may have killed gharials in Chambal

Sand slips

Where there is a river, there is sand. Called a minor mineral, it fulfils a major requirement of the booming construction industry. No wonder, …