Health check-up for fields

Madhya Pradesh farmers to get soil health cards

Panna’s poaching nexus exposed

Staff of the tiger reserve worked hand in glove with poachers, while the state government kept its eyes tightly shut

Forest staff helped poachers in Panna Tiger Reserve: report

This resulted in wiping out of tiger population in the reserve in 2008

SC orders land compensation

Recognizes rights of people affected by Narmada canals  

Green tribunal stays filling up of Maheshwar dam reservoir

Environment ministry yet to set up committee to supervise lowering of dam gates and partial filling of reservoir

Off to another bad start

A failed monsoon this year could mean sixth consecutive crop failure in most parts of the country. The government must immediately prepare a long-…

Allow rich people with large farmlands to keep tigers as pets, says MP minister

Kusum Singh Mahdele has written to the government asking it to consider domesticating lions and tigers as a method of conservation

Tribals beaten out of forestland

Forest departments claim they are encroachers

Supreme Court stalls Centre’s plan to reintroduce cheetahs in India

Project to bring African cheetahs in Kuno-Palpur sanctuary was initiated in 2010

“Women being denied forest claims’

Report by non-profits highlights gender disparity in Forest Rights Act implementation

Missing timber for wood

As the demand-supply gap for timber widens in India, it is time to exploit the potential of private plantations and government-managed forests in …

Guilty, but bailed

Seven Union Carbide officials get two-year jail term for Bhopal gas leak that has killed 20,000

Ban on construction work at Maheshwar dam lifted

This despite Jairam Ramesh himself accepted rehabilitation was slow

Gir lions get a second home

Supreme Court orders shifting of some lions to Madhya Pradesh's Kuno-Palpur sanctuary to protect their gene pool

Environment ministry backtracks on ban on tiger tourism

Will file an affidavit in Supreme Court, seeking review of guidelines that call for phasing out tourism from core tiger habitats

Price tag for tendu, bamboo

Government struggles to calculate cost of forest produce

Tiger reserved

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

Tigers buffered

Supreme Court order to notify buffer zones around reserves raises both hope and fear

Saharias face exile, again

Displaced from Kuno wildlife sanctuary earlier, the tribe is being evicted again for a dam

Halfway through

Tribal affairs ministy attempts to give forest dwellers their due welfare benefits, through a compromise

Fresh development plan for naxal-affected districts

Rural schemes to be more flexible; get more funds