Different colours of green

How media has shaped people's understanding of environment

Missing the grass for the trees

Overprotection of grasslands in India is leading to its decline

Staying legal, staying reasonable

A law can be effective only if it's reasonable

Setback for jumbo corridor

SC stays order evicting resorts near sanctuary in Tamil Nadu

Pro-poor schemes in plenty, but no end to tribal community struggles

Governance has virtually collapsed in tribal regions; most welfare and development schemes hardly reach even 10% of the targets

When did humans first start to speak? How language evolved in Africa

Ability to produce speech sounds catapulted Homo sapiens into a world in which they would dominate all other species

Centre lays down policy on cattle dehorning & castration 63 years after implementation of animal cruelty Act

Notification defines how to carry out painful procedures on animals; rearers say cattle at mercy of veterinarian

Rogues tamed

In a unique operation, forest departments of two states use trained elephants to capture crop-raiding tuskers in the forests of southern Maharashtra

Caught in crossfire

Chhattisgarh government withdraws support to people who took shelter in Salwa Judum camps

Twist in turtle’s tale

Falling catch fuels turtle-fisher conflict in Lakshadweep atolls

Flower to the People

Floriculture emerges as a big economy in Sikkim

Whose corridor is it?

A proposed elephant corridor has turned eco-sensitive Sigur plataeu into a war zone

Naxals target NALCO mines

India’s richest 5% spent 8-10 times its poorest; agri household expenditure lower than rural avg for 1st time: NSSO

Household spending increased since 1999-2000; disadvantaged sections in rural, urban India spent lowest

AVRA Technology Award–2021 presented to Bharat Biotech chairman

Need to create an ecosystem where India innovates and not copies, says awardee Krishna M Ella

US govt halts funding for relocation projects in protected areas

The move comes in response to alleged human rights violations by WWF; likely to deal a blow to relocation project in Karnataka’s Nagarhole …

Millions of displaced people face dual hardship of COVID-19: Report

Wars, conflict and natural disasters displaced 14.6 million people in 127 countries from January-June 2020

IFR review: Madhya Pradesh’s Van Mitra portal a tool to re-reject forest right claims, RTI data shows

Official machinery rejects claims without the knowledge of the Gram Sabha or the Forest Rights Committee

Tigers and tribals: Conservation project displaced 18,493 families in 48 yrs

The displacements happened from critical tiger habitats, according to RTI response accessed by DTE

As told to Parliament (February 2, 2023): Tapovan-Vishnugad power project far away from Joshimath, claims minister

Experts are of the opinion that the 520 MW Tapovan-Vishnugad project is part of the reason for the soil collapse

Uttar Pradesh police opens fire on anti-Kanhar dam protestors

Tribal leader Akku Kharwar and eight others seriously injured in the firing in Sonbhadra district

Political representation of STs can lead to improved forest cover — study establishes link

Enhanced representation of ST communities helps them oppose mining and other large-scale commercial projects

World Heritage Day 2024: Survival accuses UNESCO of being complicit in illegal eviction, abuse of indigenous people

Survival report lists six World Heritage Sites which it claims are on stolen Indigenous land; Kaziranga in Assam on list

UN projects food inflation to go up in 2024 due to El Nino, rising geopolitical tensions

May impact food insecurity, poverty; scaling up climate financing critical to help developing countries cope with climate impact

Better wild than never