New policy skirts hard issues

Menageries with messages

Zoos have evolved from being mere sources of entertainment to educational centres.

Monkey business

Primatologists of the peninsula unite under a new Indo-US project

Reform begins at home

A step backwards in time

UK foxed

Breaking the ice

A historic agreement to conserve Antarctica becomes a legally-binding treaty

Conservation pays

Parked at a panacea

Are isolated refuges the only way to protect biodiversity?

For conservationists of all hues

India’s biodiversity can help mitigate environmental threats

It is one of the 17 mega biodiversity-rich countries and accounts for 7 to 8 per cent of the recorded species of the world

The environment war

The army has taken to environment resuscitation with prganised fervour, but is still facing a barrage of criticism from state forest

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:

Boost to protected areas

Wildlife management and protection in India warrants a separate ministry, says a committee recommendation

Misplaced care

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Rajya Sabha passes Energy Conservation (Amendment) Bill

The amended bill aims to bring large residential buildings under the Energy Conservation regime, enhance the scope of the Energy Conservation …

What is Sustainable Development?

Sustainable development, the buzzword in environmental circles, is largely misunderstood. It can only come about in a society which can …

Tree-fellers turn forest guardians in Bangladesh

Time for version 2.0: IUCN Red List outdated and unreliable, claim scientists in new paper

Existing practice disallows wider participation and use of researcher knowledge, defeating purpose of conservation

Wise use of forests

Experts discuss sustainable ways to utilise forest products

World Lion Day: Asiatic lions used to inhabit most of southwest Asia & India

For the last 130 years, the lion subspecies has been found only in Gujarat 

Nocturnal zooing

Must a civilisation destroy to preserve itself?

India still has the option to preserve the poem within and the tree outside.

Home where the blackbuck roam

The religion of the Bishnoi community in Punjab has protected the blackbuck

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