Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
As we hurtle headlong into the twenty-first century creating technologies, breathing development, and grabbing land and resources, most of us will readily acknowledge that we may be harming the natural world by our actions and that we must do what we can to correct this. Judging from the enthusiastic response …
The drivers of discord between humans and wild species often lie deeper than the shallow measuring implements of science can reach. We explore the lived experience of conflict between fishing communities and turtles in two very different socio-ecological contexts in the Lakshadweep Islands and the Orissa coast.
Wildlife is the backbone of tourism in Kenya, one of the leading foreign exchange earners for the country. Although wildlife is declining, poverty among communities hosting this wildlife remains endemic. Using field data and secondary literature, this article examines the extent to which the existing wildlife conservation regime must be …
Two incidents of local women being mauled and partially eaten by a tiger in and around the Corbett National Park have thrown the area into panic and left forest officials fearing that a big cat in India
Pramod Panwar | TNN Palanpur: Nakki lake is one of the biggest attractions for visitors to Mount Abu. Surrounded by green hills, the lake is very popular for its boat rides. However, for about 10 days, tourists have been peeping into the lake nervously, catching glimpses of a three-foot-long crocodile …
Jaipur: Five months after a tiger from Ranthambore National Park strayed towards Dholpur, the animal was spotted at Farah village in Mathura district of Uttar Pradesh, where it reportedly attacked seven villagers on Monday. As last reports came in, the tiger was said to be surrounded by angry villagers in …
Creation and subsequent expansion of Protected Area (PA) network has often deprived local people of their usufruct rights and displaced communities from their traditional lands. This 'isolationist' approach has resulted in severe conflicts between local people and PA authorities. Poverty and lack of alternative livelihoods for forest based communities, along …
R Haldorai|ENS THE government is likely to clip the wings of the operators of tourist resorts warning against late night activities such as booze party, music, dance, heavy lighting and movement of vehicles near the elephant corridors in the Nilgiris. According to highly-placed sources, the State government has given a …
KOLKATA, 19 SEPT: Forest officials of the Sunderbans Tiger Reserve (STR) successfully tranquillized a full grown female Royal Bengal tiger from Kumirmari island of Gosaba in South 24-Parganas last night. According to forest officials, the big cat, which is around 10 feet long, had strayed into a village last night. …
Mumbai Days after a crocodile attacked a man at the Powai lake, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation is leaving no stone unturned to ensure maximum security for devotees at the two immersion spots
World leaders will gather at the United Nations in New York next week to discuss progress on two goals said to be complementary: saving species and lifting people out of poverty. Conservationists often claim that efforts to preserve biodiversity can also benefit the people who rely on natural resources for …
THRISSUR: The recommendations of the Dr Mahesh Rangarajan Committee to declare elephant as national heritage animal will eventually mar the religious and cultural practices that are being followed in the state for the past many centuries, Kerala Elephant Owners Federation members have said. The members told reporters here that most …
Relocation from protected areas is among the hotly debated issues in Indian wildlife conservation. Though the number of people displaced from inviolate areas for wildlife is less compared to the displacement caused by other development projects, the fate of those ousted from protected areas is often a cause for friction …
The creation of inviolate areas in protected forests has been a key concern of conservation for decades. It assumes the only way to conserve "critical" areas is to relocate people who live in these forests. In theory, such people are moved and provided higher living standards while the inviolate area …
Hyderabad, Aug. 9: The state police have written to the AP Forest department to remove around 20 speed breakers from the Mannanur-Dornala Road in the Nagarjunasagar Srisailam Tiger Reserve. The speed breakers had been built to decrease incidents of animals being run over by speeding vehicles on the road leading …
