Killing ground

Gujarat wetlands turn into graveyards for flamingos colliding with electric and telephone wires

Towards wetland conservation

The Union environment ministry has been working for the past four years to create a regulatory framework to protect the country’s wetlands. …

World Wetlands Day 2024: Before we save them, we have to know where they actually are

Correct mapping and boundary demarcation are critical steps in the wetland restoration process

Birds flee winter home

Development work destroying wetlands, wildlife habitat in Bhopal

Wetlands or wastelands?

Need to save Goa's lifelines

Goa's water security depends on nine rivers considered to be the state's economic veins

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Wings Of Change

Migratory birds stage a comeback after a long hiatus as Kashmir wetlands get a fresh lease of life

Wetlands in danger

Kerala government plans to dilute strict legislation in the name of plugging loopholes

Purifying contaminant

Excessive phosphorus pollutes water bodies, but substantially reduces nitrogen contamination

East Kolkata Wetlands: NGT warns officials for violating waste dumping norms

The National Green Tribunal directed scientific shifting of legacy waste accumulated in the wetlands for decades

Green in classrooms

Habitat of bird that flies non-stop for 5 days from Japan to Australia under threat

Urban development continues to threaten Latham’s Snipe habitats. Several snipe sites in eastern Australia are at risk from housing …

Crowd-sourcing, community participation to help in conserving rare toad

Bengaluru-based non-profit grantee to build citizen conservationist group for mapping, conserving Malabar Tree Toad in the Western Ghats

Wetlands in Kashmir shrinking due to urbanisation: Study

An analysis of land cover data from 2016 shows that the catchment of Narkara wetland in near Srinagar is now predominantly an urban setting, with …

PROTECTING BEELS

Bengaluru lakes to get facelift

Karnataka High Court sets 2014 deadline to clean up 189 water bodies

Flight into danger

While cranes are regularly hunted in parts of Pakistan, villagers in Rajasthan are doing their best to protect these endangered species

Squeezing ecological spaces

Boundaries are sometimes mere artefacts, and ecology is governed by different rules

Let the Sangai dance

A critically endangered brow-antlered deer found in the world's only floating wildlife park in Manipur may soon lose its habitat

Babri demolition: participatory efforts can douse the flames

Even 24 years after the demolition, courts and law makers have not been able to resolve the issue. Perhaps we can borrow the approach of …

Kerala court allows law violation

Permits use of paddy field unfit for cultivation for other purposes

Wings to Saras Crane

A community project conserves the non-migratory birds in Rajasthan

Pesticides are wiping out cranes

George Archibald , director, International Crane Foundation (ICF), USA, has been a regular visitor to Keoladeo Ghana National Park, Bharatpur. In …

Silent invader

Prosopis juliflora can pose a big threat to bird population in Tamil Nadu