INDIA

Vietnam proposes legalising use of tiger parts in traditional medicines

International community, activists say move will undo tiger conservation efforts 

Device to check illegal trade of rare species

DNA trail nails ivory cache

Alligator delicacies in Brazil

Ivory trade

In Court

Sex tree called Citropsis

In Short

Cabinet approves setting up of wildlife crime control bureau

In Short

South Asia

In Short

Between the lines

Veerappan's history has been written in red in official records. But support from high places as much as from the ordinary people has sustained him

Trial by terror

Is Veerappan playing his last ace? Or is he having the last laugh on the incompetence of the State machinery?

Elusive trail

Despite heavy deployment of police, Veerappan has remained elusive. The Special Task Force used the ugliest tactics to track him down, but failed

Cut it out

A critique of recent suggestions to hack tusks, horns and other poachers' delights to save endangered animals.

Oh dear!

The decision to import deer into mangroves lacks scientific understanding

Wildlife mismanaged

The biggest threat to wildlife comes from foresters themselves

Panna’s poaching nexus exposed

Staff of the tiger reserve worked hand in glove with poachers, while the state government kept its eyes tightly shut

Goodbye Indian mermaid

Making slow headway

Hurdles in the way of a buffer zone in Arunachal tiger reserve

The key: empowerment

Arouse people's interest in governance

TOURISM & HANDICRAFTS: Backs to the wall

Militancy's most distressing casualties

WATER: Fading glories

Kashmir's dying lakes are choking their dependants