How tribal leadership in Chhattisgarh is helping people access rights

The civil society’s intervention in the tribal regions began in early 1980s on two issues-sustainable livelihood, particularly in forest …

Victims of ‘growth’

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‘Forests can’t survive without communities’

Nepal’s Forest Act of 1993, which allows communities to manage their forests, is admired and emulated by governments and movements across …

India's disregarded wolves

The king of dry grasslands has nowhere to go

Eviction threat

Tiger trouble - balancing act gone awry

Court rules in favour of tribals

News 360° - Briefs

Ecuador’s anti-mining activist killed ahead of his visit to Lima

Government of the first country in the world to recognise nature’s rights is under a cloud after murder of José Isidro Tendetza …

Climbing the machan: Poverty and animal conflict in Karnataka

Human-wildlife conflict is a monumental issue for farmers living in subsistence, conflict with wild animals disproportionately impacts the poor

Maheshwar dam: NGT directs state to sort out rehabilitation problems

In the last two years since completion of dam, many houses have either been immersed or washed away, and people have been left without either a …

Musk procurement for Jagannath temple starts a row

Activists say Odisha government's request letter to Centre to help it procure kasturi from Nepal is illegal

Activists demand access to affordable oral hepatitis drugs

Giving patents to foreign-made medicines will add to patients’ woes, they urge   

Patent claim on hepatitis C drug questioned in many countries

With hepatitis C killing at least 700,000 people every year, civil society has strengthened efforts to make the drug accessible

Private doctors strike work to protest proposed legislation

Supreme Court notice to Indian Medical Association on plea challenging strike

Fatal fashion

Cashmere fetish causing extinctions in Central Asia

Living with lions

It is misinformation that chareterizes the tiger debate

Win for indigenous rights: Ecuador court halts mining project in Amazon

Environmental licence for Panantza-San Carlos Mining Project rejected; Project overlapped Shuar Arutam territory but community not consulted

Man sacrificed in Odisha to ‘prevent COVID-19’

Crime committed by priest in a temple in Cuttack district

Privilege motion against forest secretary

Relocate sensibly

It has never been based on any scientific forest-specific study

It can be painless

Some civil servants have relocated forest dwellers successfully

Letters

Land of discord

Origin of the relentless strife in Bodoland lies in a series of blunders, right from colonial times