Protecting losses
Protected areas are languishing under pressure from wildlife poachers, timber smugglers and commercial interests
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Best kept sacred
Sacred groves are deteriorating at an alarming rate across the country. There is an urgent need to identify and protect these sacred woods to save nature in its pristine form.
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Fast invader
How should Andaman & Nicobar tackle the African giant snail?
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The turtle and the shrimp
Rapping the US on the knuckles for banning shrimp imports from developing countries was only a technical exercise by the WTO
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Melting to extinction
Biodiversity in the UK threatened due to climate changes
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Killed for pills
Their unique biology and widespread use in ethnic medicine makes the conservation of seahorses difficult
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For a safer landing?
An experiment ultimately aimed at protecting the threatened whooping crane by teaching it to migrate to relatively safer winter locations is underway in the US
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Much maligned bats need more protection
Scientists insist bats are a muck maligned bats mammal that in fact plays a crucial role in the propagation of several plant species
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Month of the dead leopard
One month in the life of an endangered species in India
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The minister and the menace
A recent workshop on people's management of the Rajaji National Park brought out in full fury the debate whether the local communities are wiser managers of forests or the menace threatening them. While the environment and forests minister, RAJESH PILOT,
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The great American whims
The murky wrangle between environmental zeroes and heroes of the 104th Congress in the US becomes evident
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Sacrilage for power
China s major hydroelectric power station on the shores of one of Tibet s most sacred lakes not only threatens the fragile ecology of the lake but may drain most of the water away within 20 years
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Reconciliation
Lessons from marine ecology
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Funds flowing
The World Bank (wb) has approved its largest ever environmental grant for the Indian Ocean island of Madagascar. The funds, amounting to us $49 million, are meant to help the country in protecting
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Why tigers fear Indian forest service officers
A forest officer "Untouchability has not been eradicated from the country. There still exist classes of people who have to perform chores for their lords with unquestioning servility. Any
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SOUTH AFRICA
Conserva tionists welcomed a 20-year jail term handed to an elephant poacher, saying stiff sentences were needed to protect the continent's endangered wildlife. "We can only applaud the fact the
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Proposals put on hold
Panel for second look at diverting protected forests
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Fears haunt forestry project
A plan to protect the biodiversity of Thailand's forests ignores the needs of forest dwellers
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Get on with it
What the prime minister has agreed • Revitalise the National Board for Wildlife/request he prime minister will head the steering committee of Project Tiger • Convert the Project
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Chattisgarh
Fighting the drought preoccupies the new government. Charting a mining policy to explore the rich mineral deposits is next on the agenda