Polycrisis at a Kanker village: ‘With every tree chopped, I became poorer’

Villages in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar region enter economic recession as a new railway line brings the world closer to them

Community forest rights at work: Chhattisgarh’s Chargaon reaps benefits in first year itself

Gram Sabhas, Community Forest Management Committee, non-profits join hands to streamline processes in Chargaon Naya Basti

Climate, land use change threaten sustainable reindeer herding in the Arctic: IPCC Report

Challenges posed by climate and land use change has even affected the mental health of Saami herdsmen

Residents of this Odisha village are conserving bats despite COVID-19 stigma

They strongly believe that the winged mammals have nothing to do with the disease’s spread

Fix housing and you’ll reduce risks of coronavirus and other disease in remote Indigenous communities

Indigenous Australians living on remote country urgently need additional and functional housing

Climate Emergency CoP 25: 22 million people will be displaced in 2019 by extreme weather events, says WMO

The State of Global Climate 2019 says that once-in-a-century climate events are becoming regular

‘Attacks against land rights activists rising in India, Asia’

Special legislation and quick response systems needed to provide protection and support to these defenders, experts said at a meeting in Udaipur

Misreading the story of climate change and the Maya

Maya communities’ ability to adapt their resource conservation practices played a crucial role in allowing them to survive for as long as …

Human-bear conflict in Kashmir can be solved

Though human-bear conflict in the Kashmir Valley has shown a sharp increase in the last one-and-a-half decade, it can be solved by proper strategy

Zimbabwe's cheetah population declines by 85%

Historically, Zimbabwe and other regions in Africa have inhabited large cheetah populations 

Native problems

From developed countries like USA to the developing African nations, indigenous communities constitute the most poor and neglected sections

South Sudan heading for unprecedented food insecurity

4.8 million people will face severe food shortage in the coming months, warn UN agencies. Food scarcity and conflict are also forcing many …

Penguins v leopards: two sides of conservation debate in South Africa

When threatened species come into conflict, the benefit of conserving one species over the other becomes the deciding factor

SDGs better than MDGs, but still flawed, say indigenous communities

According to them, SDGs do not recognise the collective rights of indigenous communities as one of the indicators

Eye opener

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Animal rights groups welcome SC ban on Jallikattu

Owners of bulls trained for the sport must be well compensated so that the animals are not sent for slaughter, say activists

Droupadi Murmu’s village in Odisha celebrates her win with fanfare

Many question if her win will alleviate plight of tribals in country

The new Forest Act debate is essential

Let both forests and communities win

Tourism in Jarawa buffer, officially

Andaman administration to remove legal hurdles to allow small commercial activities

The wisdom of the unlettered

The monkey-catcher

Monkeys exact revenge on a naturalist

‘States that use less must get less’

Standing committee makes allocation of tribal funds conditional

Too close

'Centre must hold peace talks with Maoists'

South Asia