Worldly wise

India hardsells its troubled protected areas abroad

The Lewa Conservation Way

In East Africa,meat and tusk are livelihood for many. In this milieu, Lewa, Kenya shows how community involvement aids conservation

Oxygen bars may cause health risks

The great Pacific garbage patch

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, …

Sri Lanka grapples with elephant-human conflict

Cities of joy

Better late than never. Germany has initiated the Agenda 21 process across the country. Already nine per cent of all municipalities have plans …

Farming fish and mussels

When bad management and increasing demand for inland fish led to plummeting stocks, fishing villages around the Ashtamudi estuary in Kollam …

Wilidlife photography ain't that simple

Photographs of wildlife in controlled situations have fostered an exotic image of the wild

Problem of plenty

Pobitora wildlife sanctuary in Assam has far more rhinos than it can sustain

Baba Amte: The inspiring gardener

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 …

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 …

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.

Community enterprise unlimited

Stressed woods

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

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 …

Locals get firm

Beyond the odds

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

No let up in human-animal conflict in Bhitarakanika National Park

Beetles for breakfast !

George Brossard is a man on a crusad. To inform the world that the insects hold the key to a global food security

The Himalayan herb grower

Arun Kumar Badoni has taken upon himself the task of conserving medicinal and aromatic plants in the Garhwal Himalaya

To whale or not to whale

Nations for and against whaling clash once again, and fail to reach consensus

Creating a wonderland

In the barren wildness of the savannahs in Colombia, a visionary establishes an extraordinary community