Twin cheetahs Elton and Freddie to be released in the wild next week

They were able to hunt a chital (spotted deer) without using the fence of the enclosure to corner it; the cheetahs have a coalition and are …

Here is why India has given notice to Pakistan for amendment of the Indus Waters Treaty

In all the five meetings held from 2017 to 2022, Pakistan has objected to India’s hydropower projects

Windhoek to Jaipur: It is jet set go time for cheetahs

Three Namibian male and five female adult cheetahs, all between two to five-and-a-half-years-old, will make the 11-hour, transcontinental journey …

The big transition that was Project Tiger

The landmark programme marked the transition from a very big game-centred view of nature, prevalent among imperial British officials, Indian …

A great reason to celebrate International Tiger Day with the Cheetah

Eight African cheetahs will be relocated from Namibia to India in August for captive breeding in the Kuno National Park 

Project Cheetah: Now cub dies in Kuno within two months of birth

The cub was among four born in India to three-year-old Jwala  

2022 too short, too far: Environmental movements covered by DTE this year

Down To Earth recaps the primary environment, health and developmental news from 2022

Indian scientists receive international award on behalf of snow leopard conservation alliance

There may be as few as 4,000 and no more than 6,300 snow leopards left in the wild

Reintroducing cheetahs: Elephants help in moving leopards away from Kuno National Park

It is easier to spot and tranquilise leopards riding on elephants, say forest officials

Supreme Court orders status quo on Kaleshwaram irrigation project expansion

Telangana government increasing capacity without green nod, court told 

Fifteen non-profits take fresh legal action against Europe’s biggest plastics project

This marks a new phase in the over three-year long legal battle against INEOS’ ‘Project One’, a €3 billion plastic project …

Suraj: Eighth cheetah dies at Kuno National Park

Injury marks found on neck and back of the wild cat  

Tiger reserved: Fiftieth anniversary of Project Tiger means little to forest-dwelling communities

The fact is that despite amendments, our policies still follow the fortress conservation approach where the strategy is to “exclude and …

A megafauna bias in India’s carnivore research is hampering the country’s conservations efforts

For many smaller and less charismatic carnivores like the fishing cat, even basic ecological data like distribution range remains unclarified

Cheetahs in Kuno next week: Leopard attacks, poaching, stress of capture remain concerns

Those in charge of the cheetah project told DTE that they had factored in concerns for the reintroduced species  

How can you make a westward-flowing river flow east: Activists on Bedti-Varada interlinking

Bedti-Varada river interlinking is an unscientific project that will drain public money, say critics

Why flooding raises alarm over bearing of hydropower plants on the Himalayas

The need of the hour is to put halt large hydel-power projects in the Himalayas. Can small hydropower plants offer a sustainable solution?

Mismanagement, negligence and political pressure are killing Kuno cheetahs

Experts say not too late, but a severe restructure and competent authorities incharge needed to salvage the project

Over 1,000 people, including monks, arrested for opposing Dege hydropower dam project in Tibet

Experts claim monasteries have been put under lockdown; dam will be environmentally detrimental

Eight months since Project Cheetah began, 3 of the animals are already dead

A third cheetah, ‘Daksha’, died on May 9; officials claim the death occurred during mating

50 years of Project Tiger: Half a century on, conservation has to move on beyond band-aid mode, says Mahesh Rangarajan

Down To Earth speaks to Mahesh Rangarajan, professor of history and environmental studies at Ashoka University in Haryana, for an appraisal of …

Cheetahs in India: New cats on the block

India’s plan to reintroduce cheetahs has chances of success, but uncertainties remain

‘Assault on the Himalayas’: Chairman of Char Dham Committee resigns

The belief that the HPC could protect this fragile ecology has been shattered. I can do no more, Ravi Chopra wrote

Uttarkashi tunnel collapse: Experts raise questions on geological and geotechnical surveys for project

Accident spot located near Main Central Thrust of the Himalayas

A year of the cheetah in India: The exercise offers simple yet critical lessons

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