Creating history in a hurry

Why are fires raging in Similipal?

The fires seem to be both, a natural disaster and human-made mishap, according to experts

Let's be very clear

Land rights won't benefit tribals, inviolate areas can't secure tigers

Camera traps click ties between species in Sumatra

The traps, deployed for eight years as part of a study, recorded the haunts and habits of dozens of species

The sexual world of the tiger has been invisible to the world: Valmik Thapar

Down To Earth talks to veteran conservationist Valmik Thapar about his book 'The sex life of tigers', the cat’s mating rituals and why his …

Kaziranga needs both, animals and humans

We cannot straitjacket the park and its neighbouring areas into “humans-only” and “animals-only” landscapes

Tiger anxiety

Siberian tiger in the cold

Conservationists draw up strategies to arrest the rapid decimation of the great Siberian tiger

Tiger under threat

On the brink

CAMBODIA

Written in stone

UK stone importers not to buy marble sourced from tiger habitats

A timely compendium

Tigers' choice

The big cats have lost one who championed their survival with the death of Kailash Sankhala

Catch a tiger by its pug

Accurate tiger census methodology assumes significance in the context of the recent controversy over the declining number of tigers in the Indian …

Last chance for the big cat

Several countries are getting tough with tiger poachers and traders in what may be the final attempt to save the magnificent beast:

Royale finish

Politics preys on wildlife

Kerala's Periyar Tiger Reserve is a butterfly hot spot, finds survey

Reserve has 246 of 340 species seen in the Western Ghats

Let the tiger roam

Melghat Malaise

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

Endangered in Sariska

Death of a translocated tiger highlights the task force was not heeded

Tigers and tribals

MoEF&CC chooses minerals over biodiversity, clears rail track in Western Ghats despite red flags 

The Hospet-Vasco Da Gama project has the potential to “damage the integrity of the last remaining wilderness of the Western Ghats” …

RTI reveals MoEF&CC cleared 3 highway proposals disregarding WII’s views

Ranthambhore tigers, Chambal gharials and a host of other species could be in trouble due to the clearance given to the highway proposals

India now has 1,706 tigers

At the last count their number was 1,411; experts doubt latest census