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 …

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 …

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?

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?

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 …

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Tolba awarded

Needed: institutions that deliver

More questions than answers

SOUTH AFRICA

Saved at last?

PROTECTING LIFE

Taken to task

Protecting sites

Price of nature

Nature's services can no longer be taken for granted

More homes for tigers

Six new tiger reserves will be included in Project Tiger

The elephant is a large animal

Wildlife research in India is primitive and fails to live up to the crisis of conservation