A mountain to climb

Cash-strapped Uttaranchal embarks on industrialisation. However, its policies are frightfully blind to green issues

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

What the debate on Singur hasn't touched

Mangrove park fights closure

Environment ministry says theme park destroying ecology

Road maze

The controversy around the Kandi road through the Corbett Tiger Reserve

Tragopan country

How Uttarakhand’s pristine forests are being concretised for tourism

The mountain views and the beleaguered mountain wildlife may soon become memories of the past if better land use policies are not established

Unlikely man-eaters

Once poachers now guards

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

GOT IT!

Think tourism in India and the first images that will flash through your mind is -- the Taj Mahal and the Indian tiger. Tigers, and the protected …

Goa at sea

Despite promoting itself as an ecotourism hub, Goa is blind to the damage caused to its marine wildlife

Virgin islands In peril

Tourism planned in Sri Lanka’s islands threatens their fragile ecosystem and the lives of people there

How eco-tourism can promote ecological security, livelihood opportunities in Tamil Nadu

Forest dependents and other tribes who live inside the forest face adverse livelihood issues

It’s not just about a good holiday

Making ecotourism work for all stakeholders requires a new vision

The key: empowerment

Arouse people's interest in governance

TOURISM & HANDICRAFTS: Backs to the wall

Militancy's most distressing casualties

WATER: Fading glories

Kashmir's dying lakes are choking their dependants

FORESTS: Losing its soul

Sustainable tourism: Carrying capacity assessment can be a tool for protecting hilly areas 

It is the need of the hour to regulate unmanaged tourism activities to maintain the ecological balance and facilitate tourism

Don’t just cash in on tigers

Nature-based tourism: from rhetoric to reality

View from the top

Planners must stop looking down at hill-stations

Village in arms

High risk

Problem: Tall buildings risky in high seismic zones; Status: Hill-stations are getting concretised and growing vertically; Challenge: Use local …

What goes down

Problem: Lack of space for garbage disposal; inadequate sewerage; Status: Garbage disposed on hill slopes ends in streams/rivers; Challenge: …

Defying gravity

Problem: Terrain forbids water supply systems that work in plains; Status: Water crisis in peak season every year; Challenge: Develop …