Sound foundation

Fly ash presents an alternative to the polluting burnt bricks

Rhinos in trouble

Poaching and encroachments threaten one-horned rhionos at Orang National Park

Protection of wildlife

Unholy deeds in the woods

Human greed is putting an end to the traditional sacred groves in Kerala

Wild buffaloes threatened

Fortifying ecofront

Can existing constitutional safeguards adequately address the environmental concerns?

Bok review: Heady stuff

Conservation and Society by Kamaljit S Bawa

Let them co-exist

Engage forest dwellers in managing wildlife: Tiger Task Force

2006: the tiger re-appears

Can amphibians tackle climate change?

World’s tigers should be classified into two species only, says study

‘Classification of tigers into too many subspecies reduces the scope of action for breeding or rehabilitation programmes’

Strict environmental policies

The struggle to restore river normalcy gathers momentum in the US with strict sanctions on dam construction

In Search of the Forgotten Rice Varieties

If the current trend towards genetic uniformity in rice varities continues, our food security will be severely imperilled

One step forward, many steps back

Some recent amendments to the Wildlife Protection Act could infuse new life into a fusty act, but there are others that threaten to pull matters back

Saving the sturgeon

Community enterprise unlimited

Freshwater: a scarce resource

Chewing up the resources

Salmon betrayed

Earth links

Dying lake

Savage harvest

Five tuskers fall victim to poachers in a hunting ground called the Corbett Tiger Reserve. Authorities grope in the dark with little ammunition

Indifferent villagers, guards doom Project Tiger

Indiscriminate poaching, abetted by government apathy and sympathy from villagers displaced from their traditional forest habitats, is fast …

The wealth of tradition

Vietnam has taken a keen interest in tradional medicine since its independence in 1954. In the war against colonial France and later the …

Who"s the safekeeper?

COMMUNITIES AND CONSERVATION: NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN SOUTH AND CENTRAL ASIA' Edited by Ashish Kotharl and Neema Pathak, et al-Sage …