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Stories of hope and efforts around environment protection and wildlife conservation from around India.

Manisha Oraon, co-founder of The Open Field, interacts with women at her restaurant. Besides serving local cuisine, her team is documenting Jharkhand’s tribal food traditions. Image courtesy of Manisha Oraon

Tribal entrepreneurs bring indigenous cuisine to the urban mainstream

Kundan Pandey 12 Mar 2025

Hosur forest division runs campaign to collect illegal guns in a move to protect elephants

Mythily Ramachandran 4 Jan 2023

How an equitable model of irrigation is changing this drought-prone Maharashtra region

Supriya Vohra 30 Dec 2022

To increase fish production, Odisha turns to cage aquaculture

Aishwarya Mohanty 22 Dec 2022

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

Urban farms offer a fresh perspective on managing kitchen waste and nurturing a community

Saumitra Shinde 14 Nov 2022

Image shows a house sparrow perching on a grill in front of a house

[Book Review] ‘First Steps’ tracks the beginnings of citizen science in India

Renuka Kulkarni 19 Oct 2022

Folk songs inspired by nature has become an integral part of Rajasthan. Photo by Swastik Arora/Pexels

Clouds, droughts and other elements of nature recur in Rajasthan’s folk songs

Madhav Sharma 18 Oct 2022

Longwood Shola forest is a water source for villages in the Nilgiris, maintains biodiversity

Gretta 14 Oct 2022

An artist working on a Ganesha idol in Goa. Representative image. Photo by Nijgoykar/ Wikimedia Commons.

Pune citizens recycle clay from Ganesha idols to minimise impacts of clay mining

Manish Kumar 7 Oct 2022

The Indian Sundarbans in West Bengal. Mangrove saplings planted this year, alongside dead mangrove plants, at Mousuni Island. Photo by Subhrajit Sen/Mongabay.

The reality of saving young mangroves in the Sundarbans

Snigdhendu Bhattacharya, Subhrajit Sen 6 Sep 2022

Climate resilient millets boost livelihood opportunities for Odisha’s tribal women

Aishwarya Mohanty 16 Aug 2022

Avicennia marina, more commonly known as grey mangroves or white mangroves. Photo by Dinesh Valke/ Wikimedia Commons.

Successful model of development in tandem with mangrove restoration

T. V. Padma 21 Jul 2022

Sewing their way to a sustainable menstruation

Azera Parveen Rahman 21 Apr 2022

[Photos] Lessons from a 74-year-old farmer who switched to organic sugarcane farming

Sanket Jain 18 Mar 2022

A view of Deepor Beel Wildlife Sanctuary. Photo by Sanskrita Bharadwaj.

Saving elephants from train hits near Deepor beel in Assam

Sanskrita Bharadwaj 17 Mar 2022

Tephrosia calophylla is an endemic species discovered in India's grasslands. More endemic species are waiting to be discovered, underscores a new study. Photo by R. Ganesan.

Indian grasslands hold a treasure trove of endemic plants

Sahana Ghosh 8 Mar 2022

[Video] A Kerala village’s quest towards carbon neutrality

Salim Joseph 4 Mar 2022

Grasses spur mangroves to grow in an erosion-riddled Sundarbans patch

Sahana Ghosh 3 Mar 2022

The pollinating fig wasp in the Ficus elastica's fruiting bodies. Photo by Nikhil Moore.

Interwoven in the living root bridges are stories of biodiversity and human interactions

Sahana Ghosh 2 Feb 2022

Clean energy startups innovate on products to aid farmers, rural areas

Manish Kumar 20 Jan 2022

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