Road maze

The controversy around the Kandi road through the Corbett Tiger Reserve

Wanted: habitat

After being displaced from their natural habitat, bats are taking refuge in abandoned mines, buildings and houses

Skewed solutions

The long-awaited wildlife board meeting chalks out a strategy but grey areas remain

Ecological poverty

Murder in the sanctuary

The killing of tigers and of forest guards in Ranthambore is the result of a conservation strategy that took away the rights of the local people …

Twice Unlucky

In 1962, it was the Indo-Chinese war. Now it is the creation of the Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve. Once again, the Bhotiyas, who inhabit the …

Call of the wild

A unique festival epitomises efforts for conservation of Assam rainforests which have been lying in a state of neglect for decades

Andaman and Nicobar: Beyond India's landmass

Excerpts from Troubled Islands! by Pankaj Sekhsaria

Fishworkers' campaign draws attention to the sale of marine waters

Tragopan country

EU climate law sets direction but lacks urgency: WWF

We need a climate GPS system, but this proposal is only a compass, it said

Canadian scientists develop new antibiotic that prevents cell division

Older antibiotics like penicillin kill bacteria by preventing their cell wall from being built in the first place

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वैज्ञानिकों के अनुसार जलवायु परिवर्तन और उससे जुडी प्राकृतिक आपदाओं से निपटने के लिए प्रकृति में उपलब्ध समाधानों का सबसे पहले उपयोग किया जाना ...

पहली बार जलवायु परिवर्तन से लड़ने वाले काबुली चने के जीन की पहचान

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CITES CoP 2019: Otters given highest protection from trade

Asian small-clawed as well as smooth-coated otters have been included in Appendix I of CITES

Should we confer legal right upon nature?

French philosopher Michel Seres had long ago proposed the idea of agency for the natural environment as a whole so that its rights can be protected

Under the Sal Tree—theatre of nature

Under the Sal Tree theatre festival is a unique concept where plays are organised inside a Sal forest in Assam's Goalpara district. This is an eco-…

Nature's invaluable services

>> What has Nature Done for Us, by Tony Juniper, Profile Books, Rs 917

Children of the earth, worshippers of nature

Rigoberta Menchu, a Guatemalan human rights activist and peasant leader, was awarded this year's Nobel Peace Prize. Menchu was witness to the …

An army of mad trees

J K Tiwari and Asad R Rahmani profile a tree that is changing the face of Kutch

Conservation: a wider vision

A new method to conserve biodiversity views the problem from the point of view of an entire landscape instead of a single species

Crying wolf?

A plan to reintroduce wolves in Scotland's forests runs into rough weather

Hard choices

... about which regions to conserve have just become easier, thanks to an experiment in Uganda

Bear minimum

Why should bears cross the road? Simple -- to survive

Biodiversity eroded

CULTURAL AND SPIRITUAL VALUES OF BIODIVERSITY, A COMPLEMENTARY CONTRIBUTION TO THE GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY ASSESSMENT·edited by Darrell Posey&…