Wild cats rescued from poachers in Uttar Pradesh could be rare caracals

Out of the six animals rescued, five of them resembled caracals

Civil society raises concern over RCEP negotiations

The free trade agreement will cover a large range of issues—trade in goods, agriculture, services, investment and intellectual property

The return of leather weather

THE WORLD'S LEATHER AND LEATEHR PRODUCTS INDUSTRY: A STUDY OF PRODUCTION, TRADE PATTERNS AND FUTURE TRENDS by Robert H Ballance, Ghislain Robyn …

Reprieve for Norway

Mafias rule the Chilika waters

A committee set up by the Bhubaneswar High Court has confirmed that mafias control the prawn trade in Orissa's Chilika lake.

Buckled together in a free-trade belt

Negotiators have paved the way for the ratification of NAFTA, which overshadows both the EC and the ASEAN in terms of economic clout

Quandary over eradicating useful lantana weed

Forest officials are confronted with the spread of a weed that stifles tree growth but is useful for making baskets.

Ban on bones

PIPPHILINES

Second move

Tiger concern

CALLING FOR MANDATE

A clean disinvestment

Now disinvestment must also go green!

ARGENTINA

Unfair price shop

Open markets to free trade, says the US. Yet it doles out sops to its farmers. Highly subsidised US produce floods global markets, bringing down …

Blowing the lid

The Emmy Awards for Outstanding Investigative Journalism

Tit for tat

India must rethink timber strategy

From being a net exporter of timber, India has turned into its net importer. The reversal stems from the country's soaring demand for industrial …

Tasteless plan

New entrant

Nepal set to join WTO

No clearance sale

Home run

J&K halts export of willow clefts used for making cricket bats

Trees are our only livelihood

Meghalaya's west Khasi hills. He shares with Centre for Science and Environment media fellow P Madhavan his experience of the charcoal trade

WTO revision

More transparency in import of plant and animal products

Overshadowed

CITES proceeds cautiously, in the wake of the Convention on Biological Diversity