Allow rich people with large farmlands to keep tigers as pets, says MP minister
Kusum Singh Mahdele has written to the government asking it to consider domesticating lions and tigers as a method of conservation
SC refuses to restore stiffer charges for Bhopal disaster accused
But says it does not restrain the sessions court from enhancing the charges against them
India bans use of dolphins for commercial entertainment
Environment ministry says dolphins are ‘non-human persons’; morally unacceptable to capture them for entertainment
Missing timber for wood
As the demand-supply gap for timber widens in India, it is time to exploit the potential of private plantations and government-managed forests in …
Traditional knowledge of fisher people may be included in the process of identifying marine biodiversity hot spots
Some countries noncommittal about identifying ecologically and biologically sensitive marine areas in high seas and territorial waters
Guilty, but bailed
Seven Union Carbide officials get two-year jail term for Bhopal gas leak that has killed 20,000
Gir lions get a second home
Supreme Court orders shifting of some lions to Madhya Pradesh's Kuno-Palpur sanctuary to protect their gene pool
Will it be lions or cheetahs that will roam Kuno-Palpur sanctuary?
Supreme Court asks environment ministry to clarify stand after Gujarat opposes translocation of Gir lions to Madhya Pradesh
Tiger tour operators' incidental love: tribals
Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava's take on tour operators' claim that tourism in core areas of reserves is good for tribals
Rs 13,000 crore to be spent on green India mission in next 5 years
Parliamentary Committee on Estimates pulls up Centre for failing to increase forest cover in the country
Jumbo conflict
Human-elephant conflict is rising across India. Every year nearly 400 people are killed by elephants and about 100 elephants lose their lives. …
Disowned 100,000
Taungyas have lived in Uttar Pradesh for decades but law does not recognise them. FRA gives hope
Virtual coast guard
Non-profits develop web application to monitor haphazard development along Indian coastline
Radio collars for elephants in forests along rail tracks
Environment ministry wants to tag jumbos to track their movements and avert rail accidents
Environment ministry rapped
Parliament committee says serious inadequacies in afforestation, biodiversity programmes
Include millets in PDS for food and nutritional security, demand scientists
Area under cultivation of millets is declining in spite of national Food Security Mission
Gram sabha gets a boost
Supreme Court asks gram sabhas to see if Vedanta’s bauxite mine harms religious rights
Rajasthan announces Project Great Indian Bustard
State's population of 100 bustards crucial for recovery of the critically endangered bird in India
A new roadblock
Tribal affairs ministry objects to Maharashtra's Village Forest Rules that violate FRA. Other ministeries pressure it to backtrack
Jungle raj
CAG memo shows IFS officers are administering country’s premier forestry research body like a fiefdom
Saranda for sale?
First by diluting it and then by delaying it, the Jharkhand government ensures slow death of a plan meant to safeguard Saranda and its wildlife …
Jairam Ramesh withdraws guidelines violating FRA
Fresh guidelines for creating Critical wildlife Habitat to be prepared in consultation with Tribal Affairs ministry
'Mainland tribal people also need autonomous councils'
Autonomous councils in the Northeast are the reason why people there did not lose access to land and forests, says Virginius Xaxa, head of …
Why Marathwada is becoming a graveyard for farmers
Season after season of failed crops is pushing farmers to the brink of desperation, while the inaction of the Maharashtra government is allowing …
MoEF failed to protect environment: Public Accounts Committee
Forest cover of India is just 21 per cent against the target of 33 per cent set by Planning Commission for 2012