Indigenous peoples are crucial for conservation – a quarter of all land is in their hands
Land owned or managed by indigenous people is valuable for conservation. About 65% of indigenous lands have not been intensively …
The model man
Whether it is his well-known monsoon model or his new population model, Vasant Gowarikar enjoys defying the classical definitions of a specialist.…
Blinded by figures
By 2010, the world's population will have gone up to 6 billion. But at the recent New York meeting on population and development, counting heads …
How clean is my country?
A collation of statistics on population density, water, sanitation and hygiene for 100 countries throws up disturbing trends
World Population Day: call to end India's target-based approach to family planning
Two-child norm is endangering women's lives and skewing sex-ratio, say activists
Search for prey in diminishing habitats drains cheetahs of energy, says study
Scientists are studying factors that may have affected their population
Three-year-old cheetah Siyaya gives birth to litter of four cubs at Kuno
It will take at least three months to understand the gender of the cubs
Global triggers: Why these five big issues could cause significant problems in 2024
Trends of global power tensions, open war, democratic decline and extreme job market fluctuations are likely to continue in 2024
Upgrade Horn of Africa cheetah status to ‘endangered’, experts appeal to IUCN
Cheetah subspecies facing decline in genetic diversity due to illegal trade in cubs to Arab countries
India needs 2.5 countries’ resources to meet its demands
Earth dwellers have used a year’s worth of resources in seven months
10 disturbing trends for Asia and the Pacific
The region is ageing rapidly, has the largest number of threatened species and more
End of dividend
Pollution havoc
Ominous signs
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The digital divide
Global inequalities are also communicative in nature
Urban Menace: Discourage feeding of pigeons
Food security is the main cause of the bird populations thriving in human habitations
The fate of the Cheetah Reintroduction Plan hangs in the balance
Even as the world marked International Cheetah Day on December 4, the nearly one-decade-old plan to reintroduce the Cheetah to India has still …
China’s population has peaked and is now falling — opportunities and risks for Africa
African countries with a large working-age population can theoretically benefit from the end of China’s period of labour-abundance
Caracal: As the cheetah returns to India, researchers map out most suitable areas for its coursing counterpart
The caracal is on the verge of extinction in India and it is essential to find suitable areas to conserve it
India still among countries with poor access to banking: Report
More than half of population without access to banking lives in 7 developing countries: World Bank
Finally! Five experts to leave for Namibia February 17 to finalise cheetah translocation
Trip to Namibia was postponed first by floods and then, omicron; experts to return on February 23
We have become mere window dressing for Project Cheetah: South African experts in letter to Supreme Court
Our involvement minimised ever since Yadavendradev Jhala, who conceptualised and led the project, was removed, allege experts
Photographic identities may help in elephant census: Study
Researchers used the technique to estimate Asian elephant populations in the Kaziranga National Park in Assam
Violence by State in hospitals unacceptable, says IMA
Doctors’ body condemns denial of care to protesters by police, establishment