Eco Hope News

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

Vivek Menon birding in Seinthuk town (now known as Shergaon) in Arunachal Pradesh. Image by Madhumay.

Vivek Menon becomes the first Asian chair of the IUCN Species Survival Commission [Interview]

Nikhil Sreekandan 18 Dec 2025

Genomics offer clues to how forest trees responded to the last Ice Age

Sahana Ghosh 5 Mar 2021

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

Manish Kumar 2 Mar 2021

Chowkidar turns conservationist for winged friends in Chambal

Manish Chandra Mishra, Aditi Tandon 1 Feb 2021

World Wetlands Day: Celebrating the champions who protect our wetlands

Aditi Tandon 29 Jan 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

Women revive ponds for water security in Bundelkhand

Deepanwita Gita Niyogi 13 Jan 2021

A community movement saves a Goan heritage lake and brings hope

Rashi Goel 11 Jan 2021

A birder involves community and authorities to protect Haiderpur wetland

Nivedita Khandekar 6 Jan 2021

The sparks of optimism in a challenging year

Aditi Tandon 31 Dec 2020

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

Nivedita Khandekar 16 Dec 2020

Story of a river bed, a geological marvel and community pride

Manjula Nair 10 Dec 2020

Aditi Deodhar, founder-director of Jeevitnadi, empowers and mobilises citizens to conserve urban rivers of Pune such as the Mutha river, which has been plagued by pollution and untreated sewage. Illustration by Rohan Dahotre.

People power to clean up Pune river, bit by bit

Himanshu Nitnaware 2 Dec 2020

Invoking tradition and science to revive Meghalaya’s ponds

Azera Parveen Rahman 30 Nov 2020

Navi Mumbai couple fights to save a bird haven from becoming a golf course

Tanvi Deshpande 23 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

A group of women protect Sindhudurg’s mangroves through ecotourism

Sneha Pillai 13 Nov 2020

Saving Darbhanga’s wetlands from encroachment and apathy

Mohd Imran Khan 4 Nov 2020

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

Ankita Sengupta 21 Oct 2020

How an engineer found his calling in conserving wetlands

Shweta Thakur Nanda 14 Oct 2020

Beekeeping empowers women, brings in honey and lush kitchen gardens

Monica Pelliccia 9 Oct 2020

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