Schooled in self-rule

What do tribal children living in Nagarhole National Park in Karnataka learn at school? Take pride in what they are, reports NITIN SETHI

Not here

The Union government shoots down a hotel project within a Karnataka national park

Clinging to the roots

Resentment sets fire to Nagarhole

Insensitivity at its best

Forests under fire

We need not burn forests to get good fodder for cattle. Our lands are rich with green grass without the fires

Elephants' conflict of diet

It's not just fragmented corridors that take elephants to farms. They get drawn towards crops that improve their state of mind and well-being

Forest fraud

Senior official in the dock

Two successive fires in Bandipur National Park; officials suspect role of tribals

The residents of a small tribal village are known for setting dried elephant dung on fire which might have caused the flame to spread

9 human-animal conflicts every day in Bandipore, Nagarhole National Park

Most of these involved crop and property damage, shows data by the Wildlife Conservation Society

A tiger in your bank

US govt halts funding for relocation projects in protected areas

The move comes in response to alleged human rights violations by WWF; likely to deal a blow to relocation project in Karnataka’s Nagarhole …

Road of contention

It can be painless

Some civil servants have relocated forest dwellers successfully

Compromised!

Tiger reserve security in Karnataka

Conflicts are no less around national parks, sanctuaries

First-of-its-kind study in India carried out in Karnataka finds number of villages affected by human-elephant conflict and the compensation paid …

Centre pitches for Kerala

Environment ministry wants to revoke Karnataka’s ban on night traffic in Bandipur  

Saseendran’s ‘tiger cull’: Kerala forest minister made a gaffe; but state’s human-wildlife conflict needs redressal

Removing invasive plants, restoring vanishing wildlife corridors and eco-restoration inside forests should be the solution to human-wildlife …