Zooming in

A photographer tries to educate Delhi about how important is the Western Ghats to India

BIG CAT CONUNDRUM

The tiger occupies a hallowed seat in India. Ecologists believe that millions of small ecological processes live out their routine lives under …

Book Excerpt: When Assam seemed unwilling to share its rhinos

Arupjyoti Saikia relates the circumstances surrounding the translocation of rhinos from Kaziranga to Dudhwa in the early 1980s in his new book

All wild Asiatic lions in Gujarat to be screened for disease

The move comes after 11 lions died in just 8 days

A new home

Floating park is drowning

Development threatens the world's largest floating park situated in Manipur

Relocating lions

Closure ordered

SC clamps down on mining in Kudremukh National Park

The birds sing...

...A lament for forest change at Sariska

The lost pride

Catch the prey

To count the tiger

Proposals put on hold

Panel for second look at diverting protected forests

A new paradigm

Who will join the dots and make it possible?

Rhino poaching in South Africa: A slight decline in the first half of 2023, says environment ministry

But 143 rhinos were killed in KwaZulu-Natal in the first six months of this year, an increase from 133 in the first half of 2022

Top 10 facts about Machli, the Tigress Queen of Ranthambore

Between 1998 and 2009, the extraordinary popularity of Machli helped the Indian government earn nearly US$100 million.

Of large carnivores and humans

How does a civilisation relate to the environment? To find out, study its attitude towards large carnivores. Europeans have tried to dominate …

Opening up, but tread softly

April 2003 saw two diverse regions in India take a similar decision. Both partially opened the door to tourism in hitherto protected belts. One …

Profiting from ecological subsidies

The green guards

Van Gujjars lead the way in forest management by forming a voluntary protection force

People's protest

The floating islands

A hydro-electric project threatens Keibul Latnjao, the world's only floating sanctuary

Reptiles rediscovered

Tahr breeding season

Tracking Tigers

The pugmark method of counting tigers in the wild is a tedious exercise. But this method really works amidst all modern criticism and technology

Eaten hollow

The sal heartwood borer is all set to destroy sal forests in Madhya Pradesh. But this would not have been possible without the assistance of an …