Protected areas in India's Western Ghats prominently feature as top destinations for tiger and elephant ecotourism and in conservation action. But the biodiverse-rich region traversing India's southern and western states…
Sloth bears are the world's only bears built to eat ants. They love their occasional meat tidbits of course but thrive mostly on ants, insects, fruits and wild berries. Their…
Satellite imageries of land use and land cover patterns in the corridor complexes around Kaziranga National Park (KNP), a World Heritage Site in Assam, show fragmentation of forests is forcing…
While Kerala's contentious Athirapilly dam may be temporarily on hold due to peoples' resistance, a smaller 7.5 megawatt hydropower project in the vicinity has got both environmentalists and indigenous communities…
In a village called Lathedi in Kutch, amid the semi-arid landscape, a small patch of land has been fenced with thorny branches by the local community. The aim, they said,…
Coral reefs feature prominently in today's climate change discourse. Studies have shown how warming oceans worldwide cause corals to bleach: they lose the algae that give them their colours, become…
"When there was a famine in the area, people headed to Sendenyu to obtain grains," Gwasinlo Thong recounts an old saying of the Rengma people. This indigenous community inhabits Nagaland's…
Underlying cultural and religious beliefs in serpent deities has played a role in protecting iconic animals such as snakes and other species dwelling inside the Western Ghats’ sacred groves. But…
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…
When she was a young girl, Sarojini Goyal of the Korba district of Chhattisgarh would often accompany her parents to the nearby forest to collect shoots, leaves, flowers, and fruits…
