Panna’s poaching nexus exposed

Staff of the tiger reserve worked hand in glove with poachers, while the state government kept its eyes tightly shut

Panna tribals denied forest entry in the name of animal conservation

Women are now overburdened with the responsibility of fetching food for the family. Earlier, tribals would collect food and firewood from …

Foresters blame itinerant tigers

Say they wandered out of Panna National Park in Madhya Pradesh and were poached

Panna to get two tigresses

Tiger transfer

Ken-Betwa river link given go-ahead; expert committee yet to submit report

The project would require diversion of 52.58 square kilometers of forest land, including 41.41 square kilometers of Panna Tiger Reserve

Troubled tiger

Vanishing from Panna Reserve, too

Bling bling for tigers

Ken-Betwa project gets wildlife board's approval

The project has a significant environment and wildlife impact as it passes right through the reserve where tigers had vanished in 2009

Forest officials kept eyes tightly shut

When it was found there were no tigers in the Panna Tiger Reserve, P K Sen was called to join the government special investigation team. …

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (October 6, 2022)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal  

International Day of Forests: Can India shift from a ‘plantation’ mindset to an ‘eco restoration’ one

On World Forestry Day 2022, a retired forest officer offers some suggestions on India’s future forest policy  

Uttar Pradesh plans its 4th tiger reserve in Bundelkhand

Ranipur Wildlife Sanctuary in Chitrakoot district has no tigers of its own; but pugmarks are frequently seen as tigers from nearby Panna frequent it

Public hearings for Ken-Betwa river link project a sham, complain activists

People’s organisations say officials did not follow the correct procedure of informing village residents about the project. The environment …

A long wait

In Panna district of Madhya Pradesh, delays in setting up power connections have marred the village residents' hope for a better life

Insured by community

Death of a tribal woman in Madhya Pradesh prompts community to provide speedy insurance benefits to women during emergencies

Our quality of mercy

Union Budget 2022-23: Activists express disbelief at sanction of money for river interlinking

River interlinking projects including Ken-Betwa do not have statutory clearances, are sub judice and have hardly progressed in the last two …

In short

Sighting of desert cat termed ‘rare’ by MP is not rare after all, say independent wildlife experts

Sighting of the cat in jungles in not unusual, claim experts with ‘photographic evidence‘ captured as recently as 2018

Tigers buffered

Supreme Court order to notify buffer zones around reserves raises both hope and fear

Cabinet approves setting up of wildlife crime control bureau

Forest staff helped poachers in Panna Tiger Reserve: report

This resulted in wiping out of tiger population in the reserve in 2008

Penny unwise, pond foolish

The government should have revived traditional water bodies and ponds to prepare Bundelkhand for drought. Rather, it spent Rs 15,000 crore to …

Allow rich people with large farmlands to keep tigers as pets, says MP minister

Kusum Singh Mahdele has written to the government asking it to consider domesticating lions and tigers as a method of conservation