Remaining tribals in Simlipal tiger reserve to be displaced

Those shifted out last December are living under plastic sheets in searing heat. Is this how relocation is meant to be carried out?

Forest officials kept eyes tightly shut

When it was found there were no tigers in the Panna Tiger Reserve, P K Sen was called to join the government special investigation team. …

India must adopt holistic approaches to handle human-wildlife conflicts

Essential to integrate conservation goals with community welfare

STATING REASONS

What can you do to prevent an attack in tiger territory? Follow these simple rules

Rahul Shukla, an expert on Terai tigers, devised an SOP in 1984 to ensure non-fatal encounters with the big cats

Bandipur: Evolution reason behind twinning being rare among elephants, say scientists

A cow elephant in Bandipur Tiger Reserve recently gave birth to twin calves

Near-extinct hard ground swamp deer see revival in Kanha

Species’ number increased to 800 in 2020, claim park authorities

Now, fishing communities join forest dwellers to demand forest rights in Sundarbans

At least one million fishers depend on the fish catch from the estuarine habitat

Exit villagers

Fund game

A credit-unworthy government put paid to eco-development

Tiger farming controversy must not be framed in moral terms

Tiger that ate snakes

Faecal signs

Departure from the goddess: Sunderbans’ women & Bonbibi suffer the worst of climate crisis

Women live precarious lives in the cyclone-ravaged delta, as people slowly disconnect from Bonbibi worship & its principles of ecosystem …

Conservation plan chalked out after 150 vultures spotted in Bihar’s Valmiki Tiger Reserve

A rescue centre for vultures will be set up in the reserve’s Ganauli range to increase the number of vultures

‘India has to change its attitude towards leopards’

Leopard expert, Vidya Athreya responds to alarming report on leopard mortality, says finger-pointing must end

Tiger reserved: Fiftieth anniversary of Project Tiger means little to forest-dwelling communities

The fact is that despite amendments, our policies still follow the fortress conservation approach where the strategy is to “exclude and …

International Day of Forests: Can India shift from a ‘plantation’ mindset to an ‘eco restoration’ one

On World Forestry Day 2022, a retired forest officer offers some suggestions on India’s future forest policy  

Tigress Sundari, brought to Odisha from Madhya Pradesh in 2018, heads back home

The inter-state tiger relocation project has been put on hold after the first attempt was unsuccessful 

Similipal forest fire: It is time to act

Forest fires can be controlled in the first few hours; it is important to engage local communities in the first line of action

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 3, 2019)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal     

'Sariska's tiger reserve status needs reconsideration'

Ghazala Shahabuddin says the protected area may lack sufficient habitat for a viable population of tigers 

Apex court rejects petition against NH-7 widening project

Petitioners have been asked to appear before the Bombay High Court and inform it about the measures needed to be taken for tiger conservation

Lurking in danger zone

Wild animals are increasingly moving out of protected areas. What should the government do to ensure their safety?

'Poaching figure for this year is alarming'

Over 100 tigers have died in 2014 and 2015. Shekhar Kumar Niraj, head of wildlife trade monitoring agency Traffic, talks about the problems of …