Mullaperiyar dam: Kerala Assembly seeks presidential reference
Supreme Court failed to consider safety of people and possible loss of biodiversity, say legislators
Desperate to relocate
Chetty communities living in the core area of Mudumalai Tiger Reserve have been demanding that they be shifted out of the forest for three decades.…
CAG flags community centre under FRA actually MP govt tourist lodge in Pench
CAG slams action as being tantamount to misuse of powers by forest department and against spirit of Forest (Conservation) Act
Forest fires singe Maharashtra
Officials say peeved tendu contractors are causing them
Climbing the machan: Poverty and animal conflict in Karnataka
Human-wildlife conflict is a monumental issue for farmers living in subsistence, conflict with wild animals disproportionately impacts the poor
Green tribunal orders state to restrict traffic around Kaziranga
Earlier this year, an expert panel had recommended construction of elevated roads to control animal deaths due to accidents
Assam government wants to build flyovers for Kaziranga rhinos
Elevated roads are expected to provide an easy passage to animals while moving between two adjacent forest reserves
Bor becomes smallest tiger reserve in India with four tigers
Conservation authority bends its own rules to declare the area a tiger reserve
Invasion of tiger reserve
Are religious pilgrimages only about faith and religion?
Green tribunal bans quarrying in Sariska
Forest department found 84 stone and marble quarries operating within the tiger reserve and its buffer zone
Village in Tadoba Andhari reserve wants forest titles, not relocation
Maharashtra government distributes Rs 25,000 cheques, claims relocation has resumed
Kerala's Periyar Tiger Reserve is a butterfly hot spot, finds survey
Reserve has 246 of 340 species seen in the Western Ghats
Global Eco Watch: Leopard killed, eaten in Idukki as revenge for sheep-killing
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Kawal sanctuary in Andhra Pradesh declared tiger reserve
State government claims rights of the forest communities will be protected
Kaziranga simmers on fringes
People take to streets against eviction notices and tiger reserve tag
Public hearings for Ken-Betwa river link project a sham, complain activists
People’s organisations say officials did not follow the correct procedure of informing village residents about the project. The environment …
Court upholds Soliga tribe’s community forest rights
Orders forest department to restore honey seized during raid
Forest dept finds irregularities in non-profit’s owl conservation efforts
Wildlife Research and Conservation Society accused of violations including straying from the core area of conservation, banding owl species …
Bad for people, bad for environment
A new study by Centre for Science and Environment slams system of green clearances
Environment ministry creates a record in forestland diversion
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 12, 2020)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
‘States violating wildlife law in rush to notify buffer zones’
Process of consulting gram sabhas bypassed to notify buffer areas around tiger habitats within time limit set by court, allege activists
Why Periyar reserve is India's best-managed protected area
Sanjayan Kumar, deputy director of Periyar Tiger Reserve, speaks to Tiasa Adhya on the place being awarded the best managed protected area in India
Grasslands in Western Ghats diverted for resort construction
The 120 room, five-star luxury resort is being built in Chikkamagalur district of Karnataka in association with international hotel chains
Whitley Award winner's mission hornbill
Hornbills, the awkward-looking birds with over-sized beaks, are important for the regeneration of Himalayan forests in north-east India. They are …