Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (November 8, 2022)

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

The forgotten tigons and litigons of Alipore Zoo and other hybrids: Part 2

‘Species’ is a concept invented by human beings. And that concept is not clear-cut

China bans trade in rhino horns, tiger bones

The Chinese people may resent the restrictions, but the government has to crack down on trafficking in products from rhinos and tigers or else …

Tiger's new friends

The Kids for Tigers initiative of the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH), in collaboration with Sanctuary magazine and …

Five arrested in connection with tiger poaching in Tadoba Andhari reserve

Forest officials employed known poachers to guard waterholes

India now has 1,706 tigers

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

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

Blues for the big cats

Everyone knows of the tiger's endangered status, but the government seems unwilling to face the reality. So far, it has tried to resolve the …

On the tiger's trail

Camera-trapping could augur for a more reliable method Of tiger census

We need conservation frameworks that empower, incorporate forest dwelling communities

The history of Project Tiger, which completed 50 years this year, reveals systemic exclusion of oppressed caste forest-dwelling communities

Erasing the dots

Even as Goa's politicians and the mining mafia employ multiple strategies to denotify two sensitive wildlife sanctuaries in the state's Western …

Bihar’s only tiger reserve using green energy to provide water to wildlife during summer

Solar-powered pumps are being used to fill waterholes in the grasslands of VTR to provide water to tigers and other wildlife

Simply Put: Broken Covenant

Railway gauge conversion threatens Maharashtra's Melghat Tiger Reserve

Petition filed against proposed broad gauge conversion through Melghat 

The lost paws

Tiger poaching

Saved at last?

INDIA

More homes for tigers

Six new tiger reserves will be included in Project Tiger

Green project

Cats poisoned

Tiger controversy

Burning bright

The Global Tiger Forum becomes functional at a millennium tiger conference

Holy cat

If we can't manage wildlife in zoos then why do we put animals in a cage ?