High hopes

West African countries sign elephant conservation pact

The gardens of appropriation

More protection

Must a civilisation destroy to preserve itself?

India still has the option to preserve the poem within and the tree outside.

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

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 …

Home where the blackbuck roam

The religion of the Bishnoi community in Punjab has protected the blackbuck

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

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?

What's metapopulation biology

Metapopulation biology shows how

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 …

Hornbills in peril

Hornbills, also known as avian farmers for their unique role in disseminating seeds and regenerating forest trees, are threatened by changing …

Tolba awarded

Needed: institutions that deliver

More questions than answers

A paradise in search of greenbacks

With Vietnam opening its doors to foreigners, tourism and foreign-exchange earnings are booming. However, fears are being raised of resultant …

SOUTH AFRICA

Malaysia Marching

Successful local involvement in a Malaysian park throws up an answer to heavyweight World Bank terms and plans for ecodevelopment

Saved at last?

PROTECTING LIFE

Taken to task

Sour gripes

Non-governmental organisations face the wrath of the government for exposing the loopholes in its wildlife policy

Pachyderm policies

Indian and Kenyan elephant specialists recently exchanged views on controlling a common problem: man-elephant conflicts