Co-operation is odious
Is this the moral of the NBSAP spat?
New age patrons
A NORTHEAST TAPESTRY: SIX DOCUMENTARIES ON THE NORTHEAST BY INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS. Produced by Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU). …
Sapped
National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan
Still vexed
Regulating access to biodiversity and ensuring justice for its traditional knowledge holders
Benefit barred, access denied
CBD to hold COP-8 in WTO shadow
Looming largesse
World Bank mulls India's first loan for tribal populations; to bypass forest department
Overshadowed
CITES proceeds cautiously, in the wake of the Convention on Biological Diversity
Worldly wise
India hardsells its troubled protected areas abroad
Book review: Inventing Global Ecology by Michael Lewis
In the 1950s and 1960s India used to import not only subsidised sewing needles and milk, but also wildlife conservation science from the US. …
Conservationists distort whaling body's raison d'etre
It took just five votes to shake the very edifice of the International Whaling Commission (IWC). Voting 25-20 in favour of setting up a …
One step forward, many steps back
Some recent amendments to the Wildlife Protection Act could infuse new life into a fusty act, but there are others that threaten to pull matters back
Mission impossible?
The sheer scope of the biodiversity action plan may militate against its successful implementation
Net gain
Villagers around Tawa reservoir in Madhya Pradesh are finally allowed to retain fishing rights