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The forest near Jashipur in the buffer area of STR on fire. Photo by Pragati Prava.

Communities or forest department? Similipal fires rake up debate on ownership of National Park

Pragati Prava 15 Mar 2021

A community-created mangrove forest protects a village from eroding away

Manish Kumar 2 Mar 2021

When an army of women came together to revive a river

Arathi Menon 23 Feb 2021
The lamani women helping

Stranded migrant workers join citizens to revive dying ponds in Goa

Rashi Goel 15 Feb 2021

Chowkidar turns conservationist for winged friends in Chambal

Manish Chandra Mishra, Aditi Tandon 1 Feb 2021
A blackbuck takes a jump on the open land of Bhetnoi in Ganjam. Photo by Rakesh Roul.

A cluster of villages conserve shy blackbucks in Odisha’s Ganjam

Manish Kumar 26 Jan 2021

[Book review] Indian environmental history for young adults

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 19 Jan 2021

A birder involves community and authorities to protect Haiderpur wetland

Nivedita Khandekar 6 Jan 2021

Returning to traditional practices to save Vidarbha’s ‘Lake District’

Nivedita Khandekar 16 Dec 2020

Invoking tradition and science to revive Meghalaya’s ponds

Azera Parveen Rahman 30 Nov 2020

Conservation is the buzzword in Tamenglong district in Manipur

Nabarun Guha 24 Nov 2020
Banyan tree at Bhose village. Pic credit- Prakash Kantheshwarkar, resident

Govt, NGO, citizens join hands in Maharashtra to conserve heritage trees

Supriya Dedgaonkar 16 Nov 2020

Lost and found: The story of a plant and how a village is trying to protect it

Azera Parveen Rahman 5 Nov 2020
NCF field staff collecting seeds for their nursery that is part of their restoration work that has been ongoing since 2014. Photo by Aparajita Datta.

COVID-19 cripples long-term ecological monitoring research in India

Aathira Perinchery 3 Nov 2020
Gwasinlo Thong, chairperson of the reserve committee in front of the Nsonji Lake, Sendenyu Community Biodiversity Reserve. Photo from Sendenyu Community Biodiversity and Wildlife Reserve.

A community in Nagaland strives to sustain wildlife protection amid fresh challenges

Sahana Ghosh 27 Oct 2020

Cultural beliefs protect snakes in the dwindling sacred groves of southwestern India

Neha Jain 26 Oct 2020

Sankar and his community dig canals to save Muthupet’s mangroves

Ankita Sengupta 21 Oct 2020

The elongated tortoise battles habitat loss and fire in its leaf litter home

Roopak Goswami 14 Oct 2020

Migratory openbill storks find safe haven in Andhra village

Manish Kumar, Sahana Ghosh 6 Oct 2020

One of the world’s most trafficked animals needs focus outside India’s protected areas

Sahana Ghosh 18 Sep 2020