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

FORESTS: Losing its soul

1,411 tigers, and unanswered questions

Simian alert!

The orangutan is threatened by poaching and habitat destruction

In court

No mermaid fairytale

A scientific conservation programme notwithstanding, the dugong remains in peril

Four leopards killed every week in India: WWF

Report warns that the endangered cat may reach near extinction as happened with tiger

Jumbo problem

Spate of elephant killings forces rethink of conservation policy

South Asia

Misplaced pride

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Global Eco Watch: Leopard killed, eaten in Idukki as revenge for sheep-killing

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

Sunderbans a land in limbo

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INDIA

Device to check illegal trade of rare species

DNA trail nails ivory cache

Alligator delicacies in Brazil

Ivory trade

Guns, saws and double standards

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Sex tree called Citropsis

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