World migration report 2024
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched the World Migration Report 2024, which reveals significant shifts in global migration patterns, including a record number of displaced people
Displacement
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A procession of voices
Our syllabi (for training forest officials) still have manuals written during the Raj S K Mukherjee Acting director, Wildlife Institute, Dehradun Why do you still train foresters in horseriding
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Developing distress
The birth pangs of development have been faced so far by the downtrodden, but things need to change soon
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Rights for the suddenly dispossessed
Hardly any proper law exists to protect the rights of the people against development related displacement
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Land for land
The declared rehabilitation goals never match the chicken feed that finally reaches the oustees
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People pay
Greenhorn conservatism in India has led to untold miseries for tribal people
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Shame...!
...cried the NGOs, oustees, social scientists and mass leaders in unison. Neither the secretive methods of the government nor the general policies laid down in the draft were acceptable to them.
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Forests march
A walkathon through 5 states traverses through a rich crop of traditional conservation methods and a thicket of disputes
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Problems behind the pugmarks
Translocating some lions from Gujarat's Gir sanctuary the home of the endangered Asiatic lion to the Kuno wildlife sanctuary in Madhya Pradesh to save the big cat could mean people trouble. The forest dwellers in both areas sense that their lives wi
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The other side of conservation
ANIMAL welfare activists in India have never adopted the path of physical violence taken by a section of those who protested against live cattle exports in England earlier this February. They do,
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Police firing sparks protests
The recent death in police firing of 15-year-old Rahimat Punya Vasave, a tribal from Surung village in Dhule district in Maharashtra, created ripples of protest all the way to the Capital. Three