CONSERVATION

People's participation

UGANDA

Losing signals

Mini Nilgiri reserve

PARK IN JEOPARDY

Ridleys at risk

The Orissa government appears to be in no hurry to implement measures to save the turtles

FOLLOW UP

Irula tribals put their skills to new uses

Institutional support helped rehabilitate the Irulas of Tamil Nadu after their traditional occupation of snake-catching was outlawed.

Reviving proven ways of resource management

The state's attempts to stop environmental degradation in Bariadi district failed because they ignored the traditional knowledge of the people.

Stressed woods

Management ofprotected areas has been one of the principal bones of contention between the various shades of interested opinions in the country. …

Imbalances need to be improved

Egbert Pelinck , director general, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Kathmandu, spoke to Prakash Khanal on …

Best kept sacred

Sacred groves are deteriorating at an alarming rate across the country. There is an urgent need to identify and protect these sacred woods to …

A question of survival

Restrictions on the manufacture and sale of Shahtoosh shawls threaten the livelihood of thousands of people in Kashmir

Who needs the greens?

Certainly not Russian President Vladimir Putin, who recently abolished the country's only environmental agency

Home coming

After initial doubts over whether the turtles would retain Orissa as the site of their annual nesting exercise, the reptiles return for the …

Biodiversity in jeopardy

Tribals in Kerala are being forced to give away medicinal plants in repayment of their loans. In the process, biodiversity is being depleted

Beyond the odds

Kashmiri youth reach out to people in the midst of war and loss with their 'environmental awareness' campaign

Chipko: an unfinished mission

In 20 years, Chipko has acquired many facets, primarily as a conservation endeavour by the poor, a struggle for local control of natural …

Paradise in peril

Galpagos, an archipelago straddling the equator 1,000 km west of Ecuador, is probably the world's best-known biodiversity zone. But alien species …

A lesson in bad environmental management

UNITED NATIONS

Biodiversity fund

Justice done

Punishing the offender