When opposite poles attract

Tourism and conservation need not necessarily be in conflict with each other; handled with care, they can also benefit from each other.

Dead end

Money for a green cause

There is more than just fun for the occasional visitor to a national park - the economics of its conservation

Alternatives sought

Don’t just cash in on tigers

Nature-based tourism: from rhetoric to reality

Indifferent villagers, guards doom Project Tiger

Indiscriminate poaching, abetted by government apathy and sympathy from villagers displaced from their traditional forest habitats, is fast …

Research projects on the anvil

A historic flight

Panna to get two tigresses

A roar in captivity

A Ranthambore tiger wakes up the world community

Tusker in trouble

Poachers threaten the survival of bull elephants in Simlipal, needed for the breeding of the species and transfer of typical genetic traits

Lost lands and forgotten people

The case of the vanishing Siberian cranes

Badly planned strategies, along with other reasons, have resulted in a failure to conserve the habitats of wild animals. An example: fewer …

Flight to extinction

The November deadline for the arrival of Siberian cranes in India is long gone, and wildlife experts are apprehensive that the birds are heading …

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. …

Tiger poaching

Sight of a tiger

Frequent sightings of the rare black tiger in the Simlipal Tiger Reserve in Orissa has led to research on colour variations

Bloodied tracks

Big cats oblige Clinton

Gripe water

Bird-brained politics mars Bharatpur wetlands

Unlikely man-eaters

Tigers on the prowl

Tigers have killed 16 people across the country in the past two months

Struggle for existence

Large-scale habitat loss and massive encroachment of the forestland have escalated the instances of wildlife-human conflict in recent times

A sanctuary becomes a battlefield

From copycats to new stylists

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