Changing climes
Climate change is a very slow process, notoriously difficult to understand. Is it happening in India? Residents of some Himalayan towns, where …
‘Watershed conservation can benefit 700 million people in 100 big cities’
Indian cities are struggling to fight water stress. Cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Jodhpur are going to areas located far away to source …
'Elephant conservation is not exactly anybody’s priority'
M D Madhusudan is an ecologist and conservationist with Nature Conservation Foundation in Mysore, Karnataka. An elephant expert, he is a member …
Towards food security: perspectives from three continents
The Food Insecurity Report 2014, released by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) last week, has revealed that one …
Life, again
A story about the return of the orangutans from the concrete jungle to the wild woods to be what they were meant and named to be -- each a man of …
A new home
A tale of four rhinos from Nepal's Royal Chitwan National Park to bardia, 600 kilometres away, the rhinos are forced to live in a new place for …
For all that is green
Standing today at the threshhold of a doom 04t can happen actually in a split second in the form of a nuclear holocaust or a germ warfare, the …
Call of the wild
The magic wand of wildlife research is literally bringing to life that sleeping beauty called extinct biodiversity - the supposedly disappeared …
Disappearing with the forest
Survival is not easy for an endangered species of gibbons when its habitat is being destroyed, says Kashmira Kakati
The environment war
The army has taken to environment resuscitation with prganised fervour, but is still facing a barrage of criticism from state forest
Last chance for the big cat
Several countries are getting tough with tiger poachers and traders in what may be the final attempt to save the magnificent beast:
Boost to protected areas
Wildlife management and protection in India warrants a separate ministry, says a committee recommendation
Misplaced care
SOCIAL CHANGE AND CONSERVATION·Edited by Krishna B Ghimire and Michel P Pimbert·Earthscan Publications, UK
Yankee doodles
...or is it going to be some dandy green picture of a USA under the born-again Bill Clinton, out to realise the American Dream?
Earth Day@50: NatGeo highlights evolution of Human-Nature relationship
National Geographic brings together its family of explorers and experts to highlight the fragile human-nature relationship
Deliverance by detention
Conservation strategy stands on a fork in the road: one leads to animal protection in their natural habitats, or sanctuaries; the other to …
Green wisdom in Indian tradition
PANCHAVTI: INDIAN APPROACH TO ENVIRONMENT Banwari; Translated from Hindi by Asha Vohra Publisher: Shri Vinayaka Publications, Delhi Price: Rs 200;…
The past catches up with the present
A custom of community forest protection, started in 1832 by the Raja of Alwar, is making a comeback
No time to lose
The Union environment minister says that a comprehensive bill to protect India's biodiversity is on the anvil. But whether it can be a timely, …
High talk
Unspeak has piled up mountains of words on sustainable development of the world's fragile peaks, and action courses seem to have been lost on the …
Starting afresh
For the writer, the environs and celebrations will be very different when the new millenium dawns
The good news and the bad
Environment is going to be taught as a compulsory subject at the undergraduate level. But does anyone know how to go about it?
Website review: www.arkive.org
"It is the Noah's Ark for the Internet era" -- claims the site. The comparison may not, in some respects, be completely unjustified. ARKive is a …
Flying on the edge
Population of bar-headed geese is at risk due to loss of its natural habitat, degradation of wetlands and large-scale hunting
Blood on the beach
Fisherfolk on the coast of Saurashtra kill whale sharks to make a living. If this is replaced by an ecotourism scheme the people and the fish …