Mastering wildlife
A non governmental organisation starts a post graduate course on conservation
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Cancun redux
Reflecting upon the fifth ministerial conference of the World Trade Organization at Cancun, a Down To Earth editorial see: <a href="editor.asp?foldername=20031015&filename=Editor&sec_id=2&sid=1"><font color=red>"How not to lose all"</font></a>, October 1
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Rajendra Singh
Rajendra Singh is a well known water conservationist from Alwar district, Rajasthan in India. Also known as "waterman of India", he won the Ramon Magsaysay Award for community leadership in 2001 for his
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Dense
Government wants forest land for Sabarimala pilgrims
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Briefs
• Elephant deaths are being frequently reported from many parts of the country. Recently, an elephant carcass was discovered in Jharkhand's Palamau Tiger Reserve and two elephants, including a
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Nepal
Officials in Nepal and India have expressed concern over the trans-boun-dary migration of wild animals. They say the movement of animals is posing a serious threat to the life and property of the
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In forest areas
EGS fails the poorest
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A foreign vocabulary
Why are we, as a nation, so non serious about following through on actions? Is it the curse of a foreign language in which we act, but not think, that we pick up words and so believe the deed, too,
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The greening of young minds
Environment education cannot be confined to plants and animals or even conservation; its aim must be to open to children the interconnectedness between living and non living things in space as well as time.
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Who is the bigger bully?
THE GREENIES... CITES has been criticised for being influenced by Westeg.q NGOs such as the Humane Society of the US and International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), and ignoring the demands
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Mission impossible?
Managing the conflict
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The kitty party
THE lions are going on a safari to see humans being evicted. At stake is the culture and lifestyle of a community of tribals, primarily forest-gatherers, rich in the knowledge of traditional herbs
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Green milestone
taking the initiative once again from legislators and executive bodies in safeguarding India's environment, the judiciary has targeted forest management as its current interest. The interim
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Conservation at what cost?
STATE-SPONSORED conservation of natural resources in India has been in existence for many centuries and has been carried out in a variety of ways. Today, the generic term of "protected areas"
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Feathers, nails, bones and blood!
Time has come for tribal medication to be revalidated
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Sentinels of Sound
A clutch of conscientious citizens across India have collectively clamoured and crusaded against the decibel din
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Call of the wild
The magic wand of wildlife research is literally bringing to life that sleeping beauty called extinct biodiversity the supposedly disappeared species of yore
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Adrift and Isolated
A proposed blanket ban on scientific prawn culture in Chilika lake is a total let down for the fiskerfolk
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Deliverance by detention
Conservation strategy stands on a fork in the road: one leads to animal protection in their natural habitats, or sanctuaries; the other to rearing them in zoos, for eventual release into the wild when conditions permit. Naturalists contend that any other
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Conservation boomerang
Can protected areas survive the multitude of pressures without the participation of people? Neena Singh explores the issue