Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 5, 2019)

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

In Mowgli's land

ANJOLI BANDYOPADHYAY visits Pench Tiger Reserve, the site of many a conservation scheme and finds the woes wrought upon the people there by …

Tadoba park closed

Let them co-exist

Engage forest dwellers in managing wildlife: Tiger Task Force

Sting in the tale

Tiger balm

Green light to buffer zones

Centre approves buffer zone around two tiger reserves in Maharashtra

Of 'man-eating tigers' and ‘tiger-eating men'

While reigniting debate on human-wildlife conflicts, Uttarakhand High Court’s order on man-eating big cats leaves many questions unanswered …

With 274 tiger deaths in four years, India records highest toll between two censuses

Almost half of tiger deaths in the last three years were reported outside tiger reserves

Piecing together problems with conservation in India

Documentaries>> The Great Indian Tiger Crisis directed by Arindam Mitra and Chandramohan Puppala, producer, Arindam Mitra 77 mins Tiger The …

Hunters are invited

At Pakke Tiger Reserve, NANDINI VELHO learns how a hunting tribe can be partner in conservation

Tiger Census 2022: India’s tiger population increased by 200 in last four years

However, growth slower than previous four years

Let the tiger roam

Adanis may have to leave Tadoba

Melghat Malaise

This first of three Down To Earth analyses of tiger reserves finds Melghat in Maharashtra in a legal mess

Conservation not enough for the highly inbred Ranthambore tigers — they require genetic rescue

There is a need to facilitate active ‘gene flow’ into the Rajasthan tiger population from Central Indian tiger landscapes

Uncertain future

Villages in the sanctuary

MoEF&CC chooses minerals over biodiversity, clears rail track in Western Ghats despite red flags 

The Hospet-Vasco Da Gama project has the potential to “damage the integrity of the last remaining wilderness of the Western Ghats” …

Blues for the big cats

Everyone knows of the tiger's endangered status, but the government seems unwilling to face the reality. So far, it has tried to resolve the …

Paper tigers abound in Sunderbans

Officials inflated tiger population to unrealistic figures  

Erasing the dots

Even as Goa's politicians and the mining mafia employ multiple strategies to denotify two sensitive wildlife sanctuaries in the state's Western …

Hunger strikes forest’s exiles

Once called lords of the jungle, Baiga groups in Madhya Pradesh are starving on the margins of Kanha National Park. Shriya Mohan chronicles their …

US tiger coronavirus positive; wildlife and zoo alert in India

Zoo keepers not to be allowed in vicinity of animals without safety gear

A 'shoot-at-sight order for a tigress

Tiger population has declined, says WII census