Sankar and his community dig canals to save Muthupet’s mangroves
Sankar grew up listening to stories of rain. For in Muthupet, where the 54-year-old’s family has been residing for about 250 years, it was the rainfall which nourished an extensive…
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[Commentary] Access and Benefit Sharing provision of CBD can stifle mitigation of global pandemics
No virus respects national boundaries or sovereign rights of nation states. Yet, citing issues of equity in Virus Sharing Mechanism, Indonesia decided to withhold the virus samples of avian influenza…
Worsening floods in Indonesia’s Sumatra Island linked to oil palm plantations
Newly published research has linked the spread of oil palm and rubber plantations across a watershed area of Indonesia’s Sumatra Island to worsening floods in the region. The analysis, published in…
Smoke from stubble burning in Punjab may aggravate COVID-19 symptoms
Stubble burning in Punjab has annually been cited as the main contributor to the smog in Delhi and parts of northern India in pre-winter months. Delhi’s air quality levels in…
Katte and Kunte: The lesser known waterbodies of Bengaluru
Three decades ago, 65-year-old Jayamma had an opportunity to buy a small plot of land at Hosahalli, on the fringes of Bengaluru, where she worked as a tailor in a…
How an engineer found his calling in conserving wetlands
Every day after returning from school, young Ramveer Tanwar would quickly eat his lunch, pick up his school books and take a herd of cattle for grazing. While the livestock…
Palm oil production impacts livelihood and gender roles in East Kalimantan, Indonesia
In the rural Indonesian village of Hongoi*, women like Lina* from the indigenous Dayak Modang community have had to come up with creative ways to continue their long-held tradition of…
A citizen’s movement to protect wetlands emerges in Jammu and Kashmir
It was a cigarette butt that turned Tariq’s life around. Tariq A. Patloo remembers the moment like it were yesterday. “I was taking a German tourist through one of our…
The shepherd who digs ponds for animals
A nondescript village in Malavalli taluk in Mandya district of Karnataka, Dasanadoddi, is a little over 100 km from the capital city of Bengaluru. With narrow tarred roads snaking through…
It takes a village – and an inspired leader – to protect Kutch’s unique inland mangroves
In Guneri, Kutch, there is a belief that many years ago, when the Indian subcontinent was not as fragmented, a Sufi saint had come to the region and planted two…
