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Illegal mining threatens a slender loris sanctuary

George Rajasekaran 6 Feb 2025
Nicobar megapode, one of the many species affected by nicobar development

With Rs. 800 million sanctioned, committees begin monitoring Great Nicobar development project

Simrin Sirur 4 Feb 2025

Even amid conflict, nuanced narratives of reverence and empathy for the elephant prevail

Nabarun Guha 9 Jan 2025
The latest forest survey reports a 1,446 sq. km. increase in forest and tree cover since 2021, with 156 sq. km. in forest cover and 1,289 sq. km. in tree cover. Image by Pooja Rathod via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA-4.0).

Forest Survey reveals India’s shift towards plantations, a threat to natural ecosystems

Kundan Pandey 27 Dec 2024

[Interview] Scientist Ruth DeFries on deforestation: There isn’t one driver, there’s a different context in different places

Sahana Ghosh and Kartik Chandramouli 7 Apr 2023
Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park in the town of Darjeeling, is the largest high-altitude zoo in India. The new Bill exempts 100 kilometres of forest along the international border from any legal protection. Photo by Syed Sajidul Islam

Legal protection of certain forest land to be removed as government pushes security projects

Kundan Pandey 6 Apr 2023
Sandra Diaz, Argentine ecologist and co-chair of the IPBES Global Assessment, says that the indirect drivers of change such as the way we consume, eat, use energy, trade, and the ideas we have of what is a fulfilling life, impact nature. Photo by Casa Rosada (Argentina Presidency of the Nation)/Wikimedia Commons.

[Interview] IPBES scientist Sandra Diaz on the need for bold targets to tackle biodiversity loss

Sahana Ghosh 15 Dec 2022

[Commentary] Lifestyle For Environment is a noble concept, but needs a holistic approach

Dipak Anand and Gopi GV 18 Nov 2022

Manipur landslide sparks ecological debate

Kasturi Das 26 Aug 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
Hundreds of tribals are now camping in the forest to save the HasdeoAranyaforest which is spread over 70,000 square kilometers in the northern part of Chhattisgarh. Photo by Alok Prakash Putul

In the midst of coal shortage reports, a coal mine extension is approved in pristine Hasdeo forests

Alok Prakash Putul 25 May 2022
Chilgoza trees in the forest area of Kinnaur district's Jangram Valley. Photo by Sumit Mahar, Himdhara Collective.

Kinnaur’s chilgoza pine trees make way for hydropower projects

Vivek Gupta 23 May 2022
India has multiple laws to govern its forests including the Forest Conservation Act 1980 which deals with the diversion of forests for non-forestry purposes. Photo by Paul Hamilton/Wikimedia Commons.

[Analysis] Developers should pay a higher Net Present Value for cutting forests

Mrinali K. 26 Apr 2022

Oil palm expansion in northeast India gives rise to human-elephant conflict concerns

Nabarun Guha 11 Mar 2022
Relief work at the Dadam mining zone in January 2022. Photo by Sat Singh.

The ignorance of the Haryana government has cost the Aravallis dearly

Kapil Kajal 24 Feb 2022
Eucalyptus plantations (left) adjoining tea plantations (right) dotted with silver oak trees in the Anamalai hills, Western Ghats, India. Photo by T.R. Shankar Raman/Wikimedia Commons.

[Analysis] Indian forests around the size of Nagaland, thinned down in two years

Prudhviraj Rupavath 27 Jan 2022

The wayfaring musician of West Bengal, who protects the environment

Tazeen Qureshy 24 Jan 2022
Forest fires. Photo by by Anoushka Trivedi/ Wikimedia Commons

India’s draft on REDD+ safeguards needs a relook

Sahana Ghosh 15 Oct 2021

The home of Chipko movement, now epicentre of disasters and relocation challenges

Seema Sharma 5 Oct 2021

Yes, No or Maybe: Fate of Hasdeo Arand forest back in limbo

Mayank Aggarwal 23 Sep 2021