Can the Northeast become a trade hub?

Or, will they be mere transit points?

Review report of Armed Forces (Speical Powers) Act

Centre's new draft rehabilitation policy half-baked

Mammoth task

Elephant management in India just got tougher

Development doubts

Why states are against CAMPA

Fiscal federalism cramped by compensatory afforestation arrangements

Bundled out

Villagers in Pench National Park sent packing

Fish on the front burner

Marine species likely to top CITES meet agenda

Heavy on the purse?

Measuring efficiency of electric appliances fails to take off in India

Controlling water

People in Andhra Pradesh now need official consent to sink new wells

Compromised!

Tiger reserve security in Karnataka

Forest commission report on forest rights bill validates government's stand

Forest commission fails to innovate

Centre, state battle over electricity

Jumbo problem

Spate of elephant killings forces rethink of conservation policy

Industrial discharge: seaward ho!

As rivers spill over, the sea becomes the new dumping destination in coastal Gujarat

Backroom deals

Is US roping in India on the sly to subvert Kyoto Protocol?

Meet Deben Bora

As field researchers will tell, you don't get up one fine morning and cut through an unknown forest in search of an elusive animal species. Even …

New age patrons

A NORTHEAST TAPESTRY: SIX DOCUMENTARIES ON THE NORTHEAST BY INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS. Produced by Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU). …

Conversing on conservation

Battles Over Nature: Science and the Politics of Conservation Editors: Mahesh Rangarajan and Vasant Saberwal Publisher: Permanent Black Delhi Rs …

Tribals become anthropologists

An academy that aims at converting tribals to anthropology; where the Bhils crossover from being mere objects of study to an active role in …

Stop trade

Soligas harvested forest produce. For them, it was a sustainable business. Then, irrationally, government moved to

Witch-hunt on after elephant death in Chhattisgarh

The death of one rogue elephant in Chhattisgarh's Jashpur division on February 24 has taken a heavy toll. According to sources within the Union …

Has forest cover really increased?

The provisional figures for India's forest cover are now ready, and Down To Earth has managed to acquire a copy. The figures, when compared to …

Roots breathing heavy

MANGROVE FORESTS: REPOSITORY OF NATURE’S MAGIC·Photo exhibition·India International Centre, New Delhi·November 4-10, 2001

Wildlife board discovers it has no say

Though touted as a statutory body with teeth, the National Wildlife Board was tamed by Union minister for environment and forests T R Baalu at …