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

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 …

It’s not just about a good holiday

Making ecotourism work for all stakeholders requires a new vision

Compromised!

Tiger reserve security in Karnataka

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NTCA sounds alert for deadly virus stalking tigers

Tiger in Dudhwa park tested positive for canine distemper virus last month; four tigers died of it last year

Invasion of tiger reserve

Are religious pilgrimages only about faith and religion?

Wildlife habitat rules withdrawn

Green tribunal bans quarrying in Sariska

Forest department found 84 stone and marble quarries operating within the tiger reserve and its buffer zone

Kerala government gives go-ahead to Athirappally hydel power project

Decision elicits angry response from a cross-section of society

CAG raps fisheries board for failed project to provide shrimp seeds to farmers

Report finds loopholes in agreement to set up seed multiplication centre

Village in Tadoba Andhari reserve wants forest titles, not relocation

Maharashtra government distributes Rs 25,000 cheques, claims relocation has resumed

On the trail of a man-eater

Ankur Paliwal visits Moradabad district where a tigress is on the prowl to find out why she took to killing humans

Rajasthan drafts its own wildlife tourism guidelines

Allows tourism in core tiger habitats and areas in reserves from where villages were uprooted