Conservation at what cost?

Human Conflict in Conservation: Protected Areas - The Indian Experience Himraj Dang Publisher: Development Alternatives Price: Rs 295

The fight over the DEAD

A severe tug of war between the North and the South preceded the unanimous acceptance of the Rio declaration

Figuring out natural costs

Many economists now argue that nature cannot be the provider of a perpetual free lunch. It's time to account for natural resource degradation …

Knowledge seeks power

The rights of indigenous communities, which have nurtured traditional systems of knowledge through the ages, will be discussed at length at …

"Natural resources need to be protected"

For centuries the people in Bhinyad, a village in Barmer district, Rajasthan, been planning their agricultural activities while preserving the …

Baywatch

Goa's 'army' fights drugs, AIDS, nudism and the various other ills of tourism that threaten to snuff out the local traditional lifestyle

Green poetry

On October 15, 2003, the Prime Minister (PM) attended the first meeting of the new all-powerful Indian Wildlife Board. He gave a virtuoso …

Militancy, weed

... and sewage -- a strong political will is needed to get rid of them?

Lake agriculture

An ingenious and indigenous way of cultivation

Floating stock

Morning in Dal: commotion behind the scenes

The granny show

A festival that takes the gut root to revive traditional farming and lifestyle

Caught between boars and bureaucracy

Authorities of a wildlife sanctuary propose to curb the menace of rampaging wild boars by providing affected villagers with, among other things, …

Urban wildlife and disappearing commons

Needed: Imaginative wildlife managers

Protecting the Eden

SOUTH AFRICA

BIODIVERSITY PLAN

EROSION CHECK

Monument Case

Bhutan

Plea to save Kutch

Warning sounded

Fish poachers held

SOUTH AFRICA

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