Model development

Every village has its own way of protecting the forests, but each one is a success story

Freight workers unaware of wildlife smuggling tactics

Traffickers disguise illegal commodities as common cargo

The key: empowerment

Arouse people's interest in governance

TOURISM & HANDICRAFTS: Backs to the wall

Militancy's most distressing casualties

WATER: Fading glories

Kashmir's dying lakes are choking their dependants

FORESTS: Losing its soul

System error

The death of India's cancer control programme and the rise of cancers

Classified ?

The data is rudimentary. The analysis is poor. And is kept secret

India

Law of no returns

Kings of forests

The control of Naxalites over forests is total and overwhelming

Forest rights and wrongs in Sonbhadra

Forcible eviction of tribals in Sonbhadra exposes forest rights faultlines

In Court

Seshachalam firing: ST commission seeks report from Andhra Pradesh

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

Letters

UN lifts 3-year ban on Liberian timber exports

Seshachalam firing: ST commission seeks report from Andhra Pradesh

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

Applying science to tackle illegal timber trade

Illegal trade of timber is worth US $30-100 billion annually. Scientists have developed some innovative methods to curb it

China’s growing footprint on the globe threatens to trample the natural world

Chinese investment is driving an unprecedented investment boom in global infrastructure, but it is harming the planet

When alienation ruins

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

Unkindest cuts

Large-scale smuggling of timber from Nepal to Tibet threatens the pristine forests in the northern Himalaya

Turn off taps on poachers: Financial crimes linked to illegal wildlife, timber trade in EU going unpunished, flags report

Criminal assets remaining in the hands of poachers, giving them the liberty to invest in more illicit operations

Green action: Four arrested in Bihar for cutting down dozens of trees near major hospital

Trees were being felled and sold to timber traders for many months near Muzaffarpur’s SKMCH hospital, according to reports

Turtle smuggling continues: Forest officials seize 40 turtles from Odisha’s Malkangiri

Forest officials had seized 150 live freshwater turtles from a village in Malkangiri district June 4

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 …