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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, 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
A Sherpa with a yak at the base camp of Sagarmatha.

[Interview] “There are many Sherpas, not known to the outside world, who regularly summit the mountains”

Abhaya Raj Joshi 23 Aug 2022
The rufous-necked hornbill (Aceros nipalensis) is found in Namdapha National Park.

Namdapha National Park deforestation causes clash between authorities and Yobin communities

Spoorthy Raman 3 Aug 2022

Land banks in Jharkhand may become a recipe for conflicts

Sushmita 22 Jul 2022
The Nicobar crab-eating macaque is one of the major fauna of the Great Nicobar Island. Photo by Prasun Goswami/Wikimedia Commons.

The container terminal that could sink the Great Nicobar Island

Mayank Aggarwal 20 Jul 2022

MP’s Baigachak region, the first to receive Habitat Rights, is yet to understand what the rights mean

Alok Prakash Putul 19 Jul 2022
Protests over dam construction in Arunachal Pradesh have been observed in the Siang River belt. However, most protests against big dams have weaken.

Dams, art and protest in Arunachal Pradesh

Ranju Dodum 4 Jul 2022

Low prices offered by the government pushes tendu leaf collectors to explore open market

Alok Prakash Putul 21 Jun 2022
Image shows a village meeting in Maharashtra, India

[Commentary] Tracing Panchayati Raj’s role in deepening democracy and decolonising governance over 30 years

C. R. Bijoy 25 May 2022

Celebrating tiger numbers in Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve, while tribal residents await their rights

Arathi Menon 17 May 2022