protected areas

BR hills, Doyang reservoir, Adivasis, forest management, Forest Rights Act, fortress conservation, clientelism, Jenu Kuruba, protected areas, forest rights, bureaucracy, human-animal conflicts, human-wildlife conflicts, wildlife encroachment, Nagaland, Bandipur Tiger Reserve, Bandipur National Park,

When We Speak of Human-Wildlife Conflicts, Who Are the Humans?

Nithila Baskaran, Shiv Ganesh and Kashika Sharma 25/04/2019

It would do all of us concerned about the...

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Wildlife and Forest Rights Groups Have Shared Interests. Why Don’t They Work Together?

Geetanjoy Sahu 24/01/2019

Both groups must put aside their differences and leverage...

protected areas, snow leopard, Spiti, pastoral communities, Kashmiri wool, World Wildlife Fund, livestock, free-ranging dogs, human-wildlife conflict, livestock, habitat degradation, Namdapha, Dihang Dibang, Bogibeel Bridge, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, climate change,

The Government Can’t Help the Northeast Without Also Helping the Snow Leopard

Rishika Pardikar 13/12/2018

The Himalayan region is home to numerous endemic species...

Elephant-conflict

SC Restrains West Bengal From Processing Tenders for Fire Torches to Protect Elephants

The Wire Staff 14/11/2018

While the state said that fire torches were the...

The Parambikulam forest in Kerala is a part of the Western Ghats. dotcompals/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Why the Western Ghats Keep Conservationists at Loggerheads With Policymakers

Rishika Pardikar 02/10/2018

The landscape needs to be viewed in its entirety...

There is perhaps no large wild animal that dies unnaturally in such large numbers in single events as do elephants due to collisions with trains. Credit: walterjenny86/pixabay

What Are We Doing to Keep More Elephants From Being Killed by Trains?

Neha Sinha 17/04/2018

What we do now to mitigate the impact of...

A mural depicting two tigers, in J.P. Nagar, Bengaluru. Credit: nagarjun/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

For How Long Will We Pretend All is Well With Our Tigers and Their Habitats?

Ghazala Shahabuddin 14/04/2016

The government's focus on exact population numbers where none...