Hunters turn protectors
Traditional hunters Phase Pardhis are part of an initiative to save critically endangered lesser floricans
Call of the phantom
Government fails to effectively execute Project Snow Leopard
SAIL gets pristine forest to mine
MoEF flouts its own order by expanding mine in Saranda without wildlife management plan
Tigers and tribals
Saranda forest: new mining projects put on hold
Projects will be considered for forest clearance only after Jharkhand completes comprehensive environmental assessment of the area, says …
Report flags violations in creation of India’s first critical wildlife habitats
CWH notification was first initiated in 54 of Maharashtra’s 55 protected areas, where rights of forest dwellers can be recognised under …
Vedanta and lessons in conservation
Struck at the root
Livelihood of 2,000 families is threatened as the Maharashtra forest department tries to ban extraction of lotus roots
Protest over culling of kangaroos in Australia
Letters
Pangolin scale seizures jumped 10 times between 2014 and 2018: UN report
Pangolins have, recently, been vilified because of reports that linked them to the emergence of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) that causes …
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 3, 2020)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
Lives of others
Wildlife is more of an academic concern except when the charismatic tiger is wiped out from a protected forest or our favourite fish vanishes …