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…
Articles by Catherine Gilon
Catherine Gilon is an independent journalist from Chennai who reports on environment, agriculture, sustainability and the change-makers who who strive to solve our 'everyday' issues.
Conserving the Toda buffalo before it is too late
Polker Kuttan, a 72-year-old Toda tribal from the Nilgiris, is like a local weather expert - he can predict the onset or delay of the seasonal rains and even the…
Could tribal honey hunters help save the bees and improve our food security?
Even as modern science grapples with the rapidly declining bee population, we could look back and take a lesson on sustainability from the ancient culture of the adivasis(the first people) of…
Why India needs its fishers to save dugongs and their seagrass habitat
For the last decade, the southeast coast of India has been battered by weather extremities ranging from tsunamis, storms, floods to droughts. The devastation caused by tsunamis led to the…
