Respect Jarawa buffer zone: SC to Andamans administration
Two tourist companies boycott Jarawa tourism
Pointed play
In Court
Opening to the past
Biometric identification attracts major opposition
Demand grows for scrapping the biometric identification system
AIDS claimed 1 life every minute in 2022; 9.2 million patients sans HIV treatment: UNAIDS
While the number of AIDS-related deaths among children was reduced by 64% in 2010-2022, HIV still claimed the lives of approximately 84,000 children
Niyamgiri: 10 years since India’s first environmental referendum
Niyamgiri case today serves as textbook example of good usage of free, prior informed consent, without which asymmetry of power between …
Ownership Scheme: Why tribals are opposing drone surveys in Jharkhand
Property cards will be issued to villagers after drone surveys are carried out under the Ownership Scheme; but tribals oppose them citing …
Dilli’s dalchawal politics: The taste of power
The unabashed one-upmanship indulged by key players has made even the prospect of a joint activity a painful chore.
EU conference tomorrow to give voice to indigenous people on protected areas
Comes against push by European Union, United Nations to turn 30% of world’s surface by 2030 into protected areas, which can make indigenous …
Global Eco Watch: Carcass of radio transmitter-fitted gharial found in Odisha
Down To Earth brings you the top happenings in the world of global ecology
'Australia must sign a treaty with its First People'
Aboriginal activist Lidia Thorpe says a treaty is the only way to bring closure to Australia, which is after all, a settler-colonial project
Indigenous islanders complain against Canberra over climate change
The residents of the islands located in the Torres Strait between Australia and New Guinea say the Australian government is not doing enough to …
Why India's poor laugh at anti-corruption campaigns
Indian anti-corruption drives don't factor in the poor, the worst victims of the scourge
Gond tribals, Madhya Pradesh government fight for 4000 hectares of land
Two government departments and landless people are locked in a legal battle over 4,000 ha in Madhya Pradesh whose outcome would have countrywide …
Water in northern Australia: a history of Aboriginal exclusion
Ever since British settlement, water rights in Australia's north have favoured landowners over traditional owners, effectively locking Aboriginal …
Killing blue bulls: are there alternatives?
Unless conservation area declared for protection has enough grazing field for herbivores and enough prey for predatory carnivores, straying will …
Elephant memories apart
Tania James offers an insight into the elephant's mind, while exploring the human-animal conflict through a range of narrative techniques
Night under a winter sky
As night falls in Delhi and mercury dips, Meeta Ahlawat ventures out with her camera to make a warm conversation with the homeless in the city. …
A flawed effort
Book>> Conservation by murder: Maneaters of Sundarbans • by Sudipt Dutta • 201 Quicksilver • Rs 499
Can the Grim Reaper wait, please?
A timeless dream: eternal youth, unblemished by illness. The search for the font of immortality has taken a late 20th century turn into what …
Slum voices
BOOK>> TRICKSTER CITY, WRITINGS FROM THE UNDERBELLY OF A METROPOLIS • translated by Shveta Sarda • Penguin • Rs 499
`The Australian government is amending laws to push Adani's coal mine project'
The Adani Group's US$ 16.5 billion Carmichael coal mine project in Queensland is mired in a controversy as it not only threatens the Great …
“Aboriginal people in Australia still do not have right over their land”
Poet and writer ALI COBBY ECKERMANN was in India recently to launch her memoir, Too Afraid To Cry. The book is an account of her growing up as a …
How to conserve and increase the world’s marine protected areas
DTE coverage of the Fifth International Marine Protected Area Congress in Canada