Expect more elephant raids during paddy harvest in Dooars this year
Many COVID-19 returnees have cultivated paddy this year during the monsoon due to the lack of work and livelihood opportunities
Union Budget 2020-21: Big chunk goes to tigers and elephants
Allocation for other species reduced
Bhupender Yadav launches field manual for forest staffers to manage human-elephant conflict
Yadav also released the Preliminary Report on Human Elephant Conflict and a booklet titled Trumpet
Total weight of humans is 10 times that of all wild mammals put together
The weight distribution is also skewed: 40% global biomass of wild land mammals is concentrated in only 10 species
India identifying, defining forests wrongly, say experts at Anil Agarwal Dialogue
The urgent agenda today is to reinvent forest management for the future; so that India can build a wood-based future, but still protect the …
Wildlife parts, live chameleon seized in Odisha’s Jajpur
Forest officials trying to find whether two arrested persons are poachers or couriers
Centre asks road-making authorities to avoid construction in protected areas
Get all clearances for unavoidable projects through national parks, sanctuaries: Ministry to NHAI, others
Hunting elephants, rhinos and pangolins for trade may affect climate, says UN paper; here is how
UNODC paper highlights that illegal wildlife trade has implications for ecosystem function and resilience, including to the persistence of …
As told to Parliament (April 3, 2023): Over Rs 7,400 crore disbursed in 2022-23 for natural gas infrastructure
All that was discussed in the House through the day
Beyond protected areas: This new book explores how India's conservation scene turned inclusionary
‘At the Feet of Living Things’ journals experiences of ecologists who practise a collaborative and socio-ecologically sensitive …
Botswana elephants episode: There’s a colonial underpinning to conservation
Conservation should indeed be a global priority. But understanding of the complexity and colonial roots of this problem and the shocking double …
An open letter to forest denizens to avoid being roadkill
The hapless leopard, imprudent tiger, unreasonable tortoise, witless pangolin, incautious deer and the irrational elephant should just stop …
CITES COP19: India’s freshwater turtle in danger of extinction
India puts forward proposal to move it to Appendix I; Common hippo, straw-headed bulbul, African elephant at risk too
As told to Parliament (March 13, 2023): 19% PM2.5 emissions in Indo-Gangetic Plains come from households
Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal, Chandigarh and Delhi emit 437 gigagrams PM2.5 per year through household cooking
As told to Parliament (December 13, 2022): 130 sq km of forest land set to be diverted in Great Nicobar Island
Mitigation measures have been proposed for the ‘sustainable development’ projects
Elephant corridor report plagued with inconsistencies, could escalate conflict with humans, says expert
IISc professor Raman Sukumar stressed on effective management of jumbos in National Board for Wildlife meeting in August
‘Rogue elephant’, ‘Crocodile-infested’, ‘Tiger-haunted’: It is all in the semantics
Language has shaped or disfigured landscapes, human communities, wildlife populations and our perception of the very earth we call ‘home&…
Burden or boon? Wayanad residents divided on wildlife as interest groups advocate trigger-happy responses
Since January, a pervasive anti-wildlife sentiment has descended over the district and violent protests erupted against animals and conservationists
Know what the Indian elephant, one-horned rhino and Asiatic wild buffalo usually eat and are eating instead
A shortage of food inside Indian forests is forcing these 3 megaherbivores to eat invasive species & farm crops
Activists point out dangers of highway through Bannerghatta National Park, demand shelving plan
NHAI’s six-lane highway to cut through elephant corridor, could increase human-wildlife conflict
Good step, but not long-term answer: Activists on Odisha’s request for ‘kumkis’ & ‘mahouts’ from Tamil Nadu
Stopping illegal mining & quarrying, notifying elephant corridors would be ideal solution for human-elephant conflict
Climate crisis: Drought causes mass elephant deaths in Zimbabwe game reserve
Drought conditions had earlier also prompted a mass-movement of elephants from Hwange into neighbouring Botswana in a search for water, food
Tranquilised wild elephant dies after falling off lorry; autopsy indicates cardiac arrest cause of death
Wildlife activist alleges negligence by forest department during capture operation
As told to Parliament (February 5, 2024): Over 400 MLD industrial effluents discharged into Ganga and Yamuna daily
Conservationists slam draft of new government report on elephants
It fails to understand the ecology of elephants, they say