Ignorance makes a maneater

Assam and its notion of nationhood

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One dollar, one language, one world

Ram Chandra Biswas rode 627,500 km on a humble bicycle and witnessed the world change, warmth giving way to suspicion. Sayantan Bera catches up …

How the state fails its little ones

Jyotsna Singh visits anganwadis to find out why a large number of children suffer from malnutrition despite welfare programmes for them

COP15: Marginalised groups urge ‘meaningful’ integration of human rights in post-2020 GBF

Human Rights and Biodiversity Working Group says there are gaps in the GBF related to human-rights relevant indicators  

Chhattisgarh: Adivasis say FRA violated, as forest department marks trees for felling in 3 districts

Villagers now have the legal right to protect, regenerate, conserve and manage these lands

Lack of indigenous people’s participation big barrier to mainstreaming of biodiversity: FAO

Some 15 per cent of global forests are managed as community resources by indigenous peoples and local communities

Indigenous knowledge: Australian Aboriginal fire practices can help protect koalas from bushfires, study finds

‘Cultural burns’ encouraged regeneration of native plants, did not cause any stress in koalas and were cooler and slower than ‘…

Food poverty growing among older adults in India: LASI study

Nearly 6% of individuals in India aged 45 and above studied consumed smaller portions or skipped meals; 5.3% did not eat even when they were …

Recognise, empower indigenous land tenure and title to achieve SDGs holistically: UN Report

Collection of more data according to ethnic identity and involvement of indigenous people in development of sustainable frameworks are other …

Kenyan wildlife policies must extend beyond protected areas

Without policy reforms that integrate conservation with all other sectors of land use, landscapes in Africa may need expensive, large-scale …

Whose job is it to protect the Arctic?

There are a number of laws that Arctic states and indigenous peoples can turn to to protect their environment

‘Need to go beyond elephant numbers’

Mahesh Rangarajan, chair of the elephant task force, talks to Sumana Narayanan on the future of elephant conservation in India. The task force …

A sharp bite: Dog meat ban evokes some sharp reactions in Nagaland

On July 3, Nagaland Chief Secretary Temjen Toy tweeted that the state government has decided to ban import and trading of dogs and the sale of …

Protect indigenous rights to save Amazon forest, urge leaders at COP28

Amazonian Indigenous leaders will be calling for urgent action to protect their rights, end industrial mining to pave way for Brazil COP

Mining's impact on Bonai's forests, people

Jarawas: to protect or not

Government’s expert panel against bringing the tribe into the mainstream

Leopards in our alley

These big cats have lived in human habitations for long

A different muse

A device that turns away wild elephants

Bushmen's letter to president

Worldwide support for Binayak Sen

Global Eco Watch: Bumblebees bite leaves to make plants flower early

Down To Earth brings you the top happenings in the world of global ecology  

Ashish Bose: a man who counted

India’s foremost demographer had a lively interest in a host of societal issues, specially the state of the aam admi

COP27: Experts flag proposals to include carbon removals in UN trading mechanism

The recommendations, made at the beginning of COP27, provide a broad definition of removals and do not distinguish between them, according to …