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