Pug marks hide the truth

Half of the world’s richest biodiversity zones unprotected: UN study

Fast progress needed on targets for protected areas especially marine areas, it adds

Hold tight

Behold: eco-development is here, again

After dosage

Will the idea of eco-development survive?

Conserve or pickle?

Eco-development in India had no clue

Lost in transit

A gravy train called eco-development, now derailed

Imagining IEDP

A US $67 million question: how would the eco-development project money be spent?

Barbed wire isn't the answer

Fencing off biodiversity hot spots cannot protect species

Tanzanian government evicts pastoralists

Government makes Bushmen's return to forests difficult

Botswana's Bushmen to return to Kalahari Game Reserve

Costa Rica for leatherback turtles

Environmental organisation challenges US federal agency

Kenya's Ogiek tribe fights government to return home

South Asia

SOUTH ASIA

Call for moratorium on biofuel

A profane proposal

10 years ago, Down To Earth reported on the state of sacred groves in India (see: Down To Earth, January 31, 1994). Patches of forest protected …

Conserving nature leads to higher net economic value: Study

It also pointed out that conservation and restoration did not universally provide greater net value than intensive human usage

Africa’s protected areas may need 10 times more funds: Study

Nature-based tourism can bridge funding gap, highlights a report released at the ongoing Africa’s Wildlife Economy Summit

The jungle bungle

World Bank makes a hollow attempt of involving NGOs in a project for the management of protected areas

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (March 21, 2023)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal  

Experts seek more protected areas in Sikkim

Sikkim harbours many endemic plant species and studies have predicted that about 17-18 per cent of endemic plants may get wiped out by 2050 …

Tamil Nadu now a forerunner among all states in acting on climate change

Other states in India can emulate Tamil Nadu’s initiatives with a view of implementing climate change mitigation activities for the …

Africa Protected Areas Congress: Continent gets $200 billion conservation fund

Rwanda first country to commit to trust; Global donations needed, says conservationist