One step forward, many steps back

Some recent amendments to the Wildlife Protection Act could infuse new life into a fusty act, but there are others that threaten to pull matters back

Creating history in a hurry

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

Melghat Malaise

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

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 …

A 'shoot-at-sight order for a tigress

What Sariska's taught us

Tigers vanish while tiger-wallahs flourish

Once poachers now guards

At Kerala's Periyar Tiger Reserve, deepa kozhisseri finds local tribal communities happily involved in forest protection and ecotourism

Of large carnivores and humans

How does a civilisation relate to the environment? To find out, study its attitude towards large carnivores. Europeans have tried to dominate …

CAUTION:only loggers allowed

How do you destroy a forest? Cover it under Project Tiger and alienate the local people. An example from Bihar

Catch the prey

To count the tiger

Tourists are convenient scapegoats

The Tiger Task Force's report is blinkered to the forest departments' ommissions

For the people

Conservation policies practised in the developing world need to tread cautiously on territories which had for generations, belonged to the people,…

Dying on the edge

To reduce human-animal conflict, a 14-km-long wall will be built along the southern border of Corbett Tiger Reserve. But wall will cost Rs 4.5 …

Tracking Tigers

The pugmark method of counting tigers in the wild is a tedious exercise. But this method really works amidst all modern criticism and technology

Syllabus panthera

Maharashtra offers new insights into wildlife management

Fund game

A credit-unworthy government put paid to eco-development

How clean are our forests?

The inordinate focus on cities and towns seems to suggest that garbage doesn’t occur elsewhere. But that is hardly so

The Lewa Conservation Way

In East Africa,meat and tusk are livelihood for many. In this milieu, Lewa, Kenya shows how community involvement aids conservation

Foresters blame itinerant tigers

Say they wandered out of Panna National Park in Madhya Pradesh and were poached

Happily uprooted

A well-calculated compensation plan eases relocation pain of forest dwellers from the core area of Melghat Tiger Reserve

Despite ban, mines thrive in Sariska reserve

A Supreme Court order demanding immediate closure of about 250 mines in and around the Sariska Tiger Reserve has evoked little response from the …

Tiger farming: India debates China experiment

Death of a Tigress

A hit-and-run case in Bandhavgarh. Who did it?