Conservation is serious business at this private nature reserve in Uttarakhand
Every year, Mansi Sharma and her sister Surabhi take at least two trips to Landour (next to Mussoorie) where, for a few days, they just spend their time wandering in…
Articles by Mayank Aggarwal
The evolving story of India’s forests
From covering 640,819 square kilometres (19.49 percent) of India’s total land area in 1987 to covering 712,249 sq. km. (21.67 percent) of the country’s geographical area in 2019, India’s forest…
A tiger on my land
It was his love for nature and wildlife that led Aditya Singh to quit his Indian civil services job, leave his well-appointed house in Delhi and settle in a remote…
Indian government proposes a 10-year plan to protect birds
On February 4, 2020, images of a rare oriental darter struggling to free its beak from a piece of plastic went viral. The incident was reported from Palwal in Haryana…
Nearly 30 times more solar power needed to transition coal jobs, says study
Climate change-induced disasters are a new normal across the world. A magic pill that is prescribed to combat these impacts is complete phasing out of coal and transitioning to renewable…
India considers bringing back the cheetah, even as lions and other species wait for conservation attention
Nearly seventy years after it went extinct in India, the cheetah is set to make a comeback. Reversing its own earlier stand, the Supreme Court of India, which in 2013…
No-mining zones to protect river ecosystems from sand mining
Unsustainable sand mining practices are rampant in India. Despite a set of guidelines in 2016 to curb the practice, illegal and unsustainable sand mining has continued to be common, spurring…
Government makes re-grassing of mined-out areas mandatory
Mining companies will be required to carry out re-grassing in the mined-out areas to make them suitable for the growth of flora and fauna once the mining activity is complete,…
Environment ministry releases standard procedure to deal with anthrax deaths in elephants
On January 19, 2020, a four-year-old elephant suspected to have died due to anthrax was found in Sambalpur in Odisha. According to a news report, a post-mortem was conducted on…
Proposed airport to serve Jamshedpur deferred for elephants on the move
A proposal for an airport in Jharkhand has been pushed back with concerns over disturbing an elephant habitat. The habitat of the elephant, an endangered species and India’s national heritage…
