India begins regulating its fisheries
Last month, June 2019, the Indian government created its first ministry for fisheries. Although it clubs fishing together, rather oddly, with animal husbandry and dairy, the move fulfills a long-standing…
Articles by Sandhya Sekar
Your environment this week: Citizens for wildflowers, private forests, revival of Saraswati
This week’s environment and conservation news stories rolled into one. To receive a weekly email with a roundup of our stories, please sign-up to our newsletter. [Video] Youth of northeast India…
With Puri’s green shelterbelt destroyed, human-animal conflicts could increase
At 60, Bairagi Patra does not need a book or a white paper to understand the value of the environment. Patra, a marginal farmer and daily wage earner, who lives…
Your environment this week: Budget and the environment, seabird poop benefits, all-male elephant groups
This week’s environment and conservation news stories rolled into one. To receive a weekly email with a roundup of our stories, please sign-up to our newsletter. [Commentary] Did the budget miss…
Elephants form unusual all-male groups to survive human landscapes
Matriarch grandmas, aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews: elephants, much like us, have complex social lives. But Asian elephants from southern India could be changing their social lives, to adapt to…
What is preventing the widespread adoption of biopesticides in India?
Biopesticides are yet to take off in a major way in India because of mixed constraints, despite their enormous market potential and the national and state initiatives to promote them…
Kutch’s Wagad or Kala cotton: Back from the (almost) dead
Once upon a time, in the semi-arid plains of Kutch, grew plants that bore soft white tufts of indigenous, Wagad cotton. The cotton’s softness was in contrast to its hardy…
Your environment this week: India’s wildlife crime, water crisis in Chennai and Punjab
This week’s environment and conservation news stories rolled into one. To receive a weekly email with a roundup of our stories, please sign-up to our newsletter. [Interview] Major transnational wildlife crime…
Hope runs dry as groundwater sources in Punjab drop to alarming levels
On the morning of February 21, 2018, Manvir Singh, 32, a farmer from Andana village in Sangrur district of Punjab, left early from home for his farm. When Manju, his…
Your environment this week: The Tiger of Kaveri, microplastics in mussels and dangers of mosquito coils
This week’s environment and conservation news stories rolled into one. To receive a weekly email with a roundup of our stories, please sign-up to our newsletter. Chennai water crisis once again…
