Nearly 500 ha forest land in protected areas diverted in 2019

Standing committee of the National Board for Wildlife gave nod to carry out 68 projects in protected areas 

Deer under threat

Recent deer deaths reveal the vulnerability of animals even in their natural habitat

Grounded

India continues to lose forest land to non-forestry projects

Central environment ministry reports diversion of 11,467 hectares forest land in 2019 (up to first week of November) 

Unsettling

The reality of resettlement in Orissa

Landslide in Goa mine kills six workers

Wrong turn

Chased off

Pockets of salt manufacturing uits and an army firing range within the Wild Ass Sanctuary i Gujarat are scaring the animals away

Supreme Court says yes to road through sanctuary near Uttarakhand

Reserve game

As told to Parliament (July 22, 2021): All Indian villages open-defecation free

All that was discussed in the Houses through the day

Elephantine block

A wall to keep elephants at bay ends up alienating people in an Uttarakhand village

Wings to Saras Crane

A community project conserves the non-migratory birds in Rajasthan

Heading Downhill

Thailand policymakers' volte-face on community forestry bill jolts devolution process

Reference guide on the national parks and sanctuaries in Maharashtra

Silt spells trouble for Sukhna lake

Controversy over J&K government's plan to revive Mughal road

These national parks have no eco-sensitive zones even after 12 years

On noticing this, the Supreme Court has ordered that 10 kms around 21 national parks and wildlife sanctuaries in nine states be notified as eco-…

Dam near reserve

Melghat Malaise

This first of three Down To Earth analyses of tiger reserves finds Melghat in Maharashtra in a legal mess

Uncertain future

Villages in the sanctuary

Olive Ridley preservation hits fishermen in Orissa

Irregularities galore in mining in Bellary

Tragopan country

A foreign vocabulary