Kaziranga National Park is a net carbon emitter; climate change may make it worse

The soil in Kaziranga is home to a large population of bacteria that release carbon dioxide as they breathe, adding to what trees and others …

Mullaperiyar dam: Kerala Assembly seeks presidential reference

Supreme Court failed to consider safety of people and possible loss of biodiversity, say legislators

Obituary: Nepal's fearless crusader for environment

His field-based scientific thrust and the fearlessness with which he put forth uncomfortable truths made him stand out

Murder in the sanctuary

The killing of tigers and of forest guards in Ranthambore is the result of a conservation strategy that took away the rights of the local people …

Letters

Too little in environment ministry's kitty

Reduction in ministry's budget by almost half expected to hit forestry research the most

Making slow headway

Hurdles in the way of a buffer zone in Arunachal tiger reserve

Unlikely man-eaters

Neutrino threat to Nilgiri wildlife

Relocate observatory site near Madurai: environment ministry

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

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (January 8, 2020)

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

GOT IT!

Think tourism in India and the first images that will flash through your mind is -- the Taj Mahal and the Indian tiger. Tigers, and the protected …

Forest fires singe Maharashtra

Officials say peeved tendu contractors are causing them

Subcontinent’s last cheetah was seen in 1997 in Balochistan: Divyabhanusinh at relaunch of seminal book

‘The story of India’s cheetahs’ was first published in 1995 and has more or less been the most exhaustive work on the cheetah …

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

BIG CAT CONUNDRUM

The tiger occupies a hallowed seat in India. Ecologists believe that millions of small ecological processes live out their routine lives under …

China admits to tiger skin trade at international forum

Around 1,600 tigers have been traded globally since 2000

Bor becomes smallest tiger reserve in India with four tigers

Conservation authority bends its own rules to declare the area a tiger reserve

Giraffe, 3 tigers die in Patna zoo

Authorities fail to provide treatment on time

Let the wind chase fire

Soligas of BR Hills say litter fire is the only way to salvage the sanctuary

24 Chhattisgarh villages pledge to develop wildlife sanctuary on their own

Community leaders say they will increase forest cover and wildlife numbers by 150 per cent in five years in the proposed Udanti and Sita Nadi …

Relocate sensibly

It has never been based on any scientific forest-specific study

It can be painless

Some civil servants have relocated forest dwellers successfully