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While Banni readies for cheetah, native pastoralists demand land rights

Dhairya Gajara 30 Jan 2024

Channapatna’s traditional artisans toy with modernity 

Arathi Menon 18 Jan 2024

A village nurtures traditional food systems in response to climate change

Catherine Gilon 10 Jan 2024
Prayer flags in Lo Manthang, Nepal.

Nepal’s traditional healers push for recognition and licensing of their age-old practices

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 3 Jan 2024
A couple from a local community harvesting sago palm on the banks of the Tuba river in a village in Maluku province, Indonesia.

Community forest management linked to positive social, environmental outcomes: study

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 26 Dec 2023

NGOs and conservationists look into commercialising invasive plants from the wild

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Dec 2023

[Book Review] From footnotes to the forefront: a note of gratitude to invaluable field assistants

RSC Jayaraj, Shagufta Ahmed 14 Dec 2023
Oriental pied hornbill perched on a branch.

How the loss of a natural dye-producing plant initiated the idea of a village sanctuary

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 6 Dec 2023
Groups of four women form a forest patrol team in Kodalpalli village in Odisha’s Nayagarh district.

The Forest Rights Act sees outcome in a women-led forest stewardship scheme in Odisha

Malavika Vyawahare 27 Nov 2023

Including indigenous perspectives for equitable forest management

Arathi Menon 27 Oct 2023

[Book Review] A walk down the Nilgiri hills

Arathi Menon 6 Oct 2023

Ruza, a traditional water harvesting system for the water-scarce mountains

Barasha Das 11 Aug 2023
Image of a man with a gun captured by a camera trap.

Privacy concerns rise as wildlife surveillance tech ‘watches’ people

Shreya Dasgupta 7 Aug 2023
A woman digs out the roots of the gondra, a river sedge, from Sindh's riverbed. Photo by Poorva Goel.

Finding gondra amid the floods

Poorva Goel 18 Apr 2023
Lower Dibang Valley. The Etalin project has been controversial because it is planned in a biodiversity-rich area.

Denial of clearance to Etalin hydel project offers relief to some; may impact Arunachal’s hydropower development plan

Snigdhendu Bhattacharya 21 Feb 2023

Shielding hijol, a floodplain tree, from climate impacts

Roopak Goswami 24 Jan 2023

How Assam’s Mising community is coping with floods through architectural design

Sanskrita Bharadwaj 23 Jan 2023
Image shows a room full of people at a conference

Nations adopt Global Biodiversity Framework amid concerns over watered-down targets

Sahana Ghosh and Latoya Abulu 20 Dec 2022

Adivasi honey harvesters demand forest control and criticise ‘unfriendly’ conservation measures

Max Martin 29 Nov 2022

India needs legal framework for closing mines and power plants

Kundan Pandey 25 Oct 2022