Conservation goals: Kerala community uses solar energy to protect sandalwood reserve from smugglers

The lights will help over 300 forest protection staff for night surveillance

Conditional surrender

Play bandit

Lapses detected

Scandal in sandal

Veerappan strikes again

Veerappan is dead

Long live the other Veerappans?

Catch me if you can

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Andhra Pradesh to sell 4,000 tonnes of red sanders

State to call global tenders soon to sell wood seized from smugglers

Red Sanders falls back in IUCN’s ‘endangered’ category

The species was classified as ‘near threatened’ in 2018 

In court

Australia grows more sandalwood than India

Seshachalam firing: ST commission seeks report from Andhra Pradesh

A team from the commission will visit the spot to ascertain facts

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Seshachalam firing: ST commission seeks report from Andhra Pradesh

A team from the commission will visit the spot to ascertain facts

Sandalwood moment for cows; Madhya Pradesh’s proposed law will be the last nail for livestock economy

Government's proposal to make abandonment of cows punishable will make it a pariah breed and would fuel widespread black market for trade, just …

New way to grow sandal trees could boost production

In recent years, production of sandalwood has dwindled while the demand has been going up

Between the lines

Veerappan's history has been written in red in official records. But support from high places as much as from the ordinary people has sustained him

Trial by terror

Is Veerappan playing his last ace? Or is he having the last laugh on the incompetence of the State machinery?

When alienation ruins

Sandalwood smuggling, epitomised by Veerappan, has become a collective phenomenon involving entire villages, which even the ban on sandalwood …

Why pruning of timber tree species is a strict no-no

Pruning of timber tree species harms both the quality and quantity of wood and needs to be checked immediately

Elusive trail

Despite heavy deployment of police, Veerappan has remained elusive. The Special Task Force used the ugliest tactics to track him down, but failed