AN AUDIT of the Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE) by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India has shown that an...

For long they have lived the life of the forsaken in villages tucked away in forests. So in November last year when the Union Ministry of Tribal...

TIGERS have evolved to become one of the most ferocious predators in the cat family. At the genetic level, all big cats are quite close. But it is the...

 Over 1.3 million tribals and forest dwellers have got rights over the land they had been using for years under the Forest Rights Act. This can, in...

IT was a hot May evening. Near the south-eastern border of Corbett Tiger Reserve, Gopal was busy lopping off branch after green branch for his cattle...

The United Progressive Alliance’s (UPA) decision to endorse creation of the new Telangana state on Tuesday is likely to lead to more strident demands...

For the past five years, Rambharos Kamedia, a farmer in Madhya Pradesh, has been receiving a lot of attention. A dense teak forest he raised on his...

An overwhelmed Jeevabai rushes towards her daughter-in-law to show a photograph of a camel herd swimming in sea water. Curious, other women of the...