Experts call for people-oriented conservation

The total preservation policy has alienated people living in and around national parks and caused much harm to the forests. Experts say effective …

Conservation at what cost?

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STATING REASONS

"Future of local population rests on tiger-related tourism"

Jim Knight, UK's minister for biodiversity, landscape and rural affairs, responds to Kushal Pal Singh Yadav's queries on the British government's …

Tiger farming controversy must not be framed in moral terms

Tiger that ate snakes

Faecal signs

Fund game

A credit-unworthy government put paid to eco-development

Rethink growth with forest capital

Conflicts are no less around national parks, sanctuaries

First-of-its-kind study in India carried out in Karnataka finds number of villages affected by human-elephant conflict and the compensation paid …

Environment ministry backtracks on ban on tiger tourism

Will file an affidavit in Supreme Court, seeking review of guidelines that call for phasing out tourism from core tiger habitats

Genome sequence reveals big cats evolved to kill, eat meat

Mapping of genomes to help wildlife conservation efforts and combat wildlife crime

Centre pitches for Kerala

Environment ministry wants to revoke Karnataka’s ban on night traffic in Bandipur  

Similipal Tiger Reserve needs to be saved from forest fires. Here’s how much it is worth

A Union government report published July 2019 pegged the stock benefits provided by the reserve at nearly Rs 50,000 crore

Fire recorded at 23,000 points across Odisha in one week: Forest Survey of India

Rise in forest fires across Odisha this year can be clearly attributed to a lack of proper planning

Global Eco Watch: Many factors may have caused muskrat decline in North America

Down To Earth brings you the top happenings in the world of global ecology

राजाजी नेशनल पार्क की रैंकिंग पर उठाए सवाल?

हाल ही में राजाजी नेशनल पार्क को 50 टाइगर रिजर्व में से 49वीं रैंकिंग दी गई है, जिससे पार्क प्रशासन नाराज है

अपने ही गढ़ में क्यों ढेर हुए शेर

गुजरात के गीर राष्ट्रीय उद्यान एवं वन्यजीव अभ्यारण्य में शेरों की मौत क्या वन विभाग की अनदेखी का नतीजा थी? 

Elephants' conflict of diet

It's not just fragmented corridors that take elephants to farms. They get drawn towards crops that improve their state of mind and well-being

Palamu Tiger Reserve land diverted without ministry permission

All state governments and UTs are restricted from diverting forest land without prior permission

30,382 wildlife crimes recorded in India

Poaching and wildlife crimes have increased 52 per cent in India even though the environment ministry claims otherwise

Devices of fun and comfort

Needed: Imaginative wildlife managers

Authentic tigers

A 'fishy' death

Skinning of animal creates a stink