Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (January 25, 2023)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
We have international laws to stop plastic pollution from fishing vessels now. Why are we not enforcing them?
It is hard to monitor and enforce the prohibition on plastic pollution from vessels on the high seas
Fishing in Troubled Waters
Illegal fishing threatens populations of the Patagonian toothfish in the Southern Ocean, challenging Australia's commitment to marine conservation
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (March 10, 2023)
What is killing Chennai’s Olive Ridley turtles?
Small- and large-scale fishers as well as government officials keep shifting blame for the fatalities
Turning turtle
Olive Ridley sea turtles have been coming to the Gahirmatha coast in Orissa for thousands of years for mass nesting. But for two consecutive …
UP Assembly Elections 2022: Who will the riverine Nishads vote for this time
The Nishad community has been deprived of their traditional rights to river systems; for them, the polls are a matter of survival
Home coming
After initial doubts over whether the turtles would retain Orissa as the site of their annual nesting exercise, the reptiles return for the …
Odisha’s fish stocks are depleting, courtesy warming seas; here’s how
Rampant catching of baby fish, migration routes changing thanks to climate impact coumpounding problems
Aid to Odisha fisherfolk doubled for fishing ban to save turtles; Is it enough?
7-month ban during nesting period of Olive Ridley turtles; Even doubled amount of Rs 15,000 not enough compared with market rates, say fisherfolk;…
Caught in the net
The recent ban on shark hunting is only a partial victory for the conservationists. To make it a success, better networking between the coastal …
