Duplicity
“The source of the danger is black people” — Why is racism normalised in conservation?
Extra-judicial killings of innocent people — including children — in Africa and Asia are airily dismissed as collateral damage in a &…
Forest paradox
To give forest dwellers their due rights, forest governance must go beyond the environment and include the communities at stake
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. …
Public hearing for Jindal coal project in Raigarh held amid protests
Will National Green Tribunal accept the second public hearing; it had dismissed the first one held five years ago as a ‘farce’
Disowned 100,000
Taungyas have lived in Uttar Pradesh for decades but law does not recognise them. FRA gives hope
Scorching salt
As the world celebrates yet another Environment Day, groups of marginalized people in some part of the globe or the other get evicted from their …
Communities make oil giants pay for pollution
Indigenous people of Nigeria, Peru take on oil giants; BP pays for its pollution
News 360° - Briefs
News 360 - Brief
Tigers in, people out
Australia says 'sorry' to the aborigines
News 360°- Briefs
News 360 - Briefs
Report flags violations in creation of India’s first critical wildlife habitats
CWH notification was first initiated in 54 of Maharashtra’s 55 protected areas, where rights of forest dwellers can be recognised under …
Obama visit: civil society appeals to Modi not to succumb to US pressure on IP laws
US actions jeopardise India’s pro-poor patent laws that promote generic drugs production, says online global petition
Obituary: Ashish Bose, a man who counted
India’s foremost demographer had a lively interest in a host of societal issues, specially the state of the aam aadmi
Khadi Industries gets flak for wanting to promote ivory production
Wildlife Crime Control Bureau says proposal to include ivory production and trade under prime minister's employment scheme violates wildlife law
Kishanganga dam: court at The Hague seeks details of its environmental impact
Final judgement deferred as India, Pakistan fail to submit details of environment flows and impacts of their hydropower projects
Poor enforcement, weak laws make poaching an easy game
Salman Khan might be in the arclights because of his poaching misadventures. But many people routinely get away with killing protected animals; …
Tigers on the prowl
Tigers have killed 16 people across the country in the past two months
Taungyas get legal recognition
Land titles distributed to 651 families in six Uttar Pradesh villages
POSCO: take land but give life