3+ hour, 26+ min ago  (701+ words) Published: May 02, 2026 14: 53 IST - 8 MINS READ The National Crime Records Bureau's (NCRB) "Crime in India" statistics suggest that wildlife crime in the country is on a steady decline. According to the NCRB, cases registered by the police under the Wild Life…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (457+ words) Published: Mar 21, 2026 17: 08 IST I haven't got over it entirely. The one happy place in my head is still Heidi's loft, with its bed of fragrant hay and a window overlooking the rolling green valley. Since the loft is accessible not…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1363+ words) Published: Mar 12, 2026 19: 05 IST "I always knew I wanted to work," said Dipti, the mother of a three-year-old girl, who soon after marriage trained as a "naturalist" with Satpuda Foundation, a local non-profit. She learnt about the birds, the animals, and…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (610+ words) Published: Feb 17, 2026 22: 14 IST - 7 MINS READ The Delhi Development Authority (DDA), a statutory body under the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, has undertaken this initiative with the University of Delhi's Centre for Environmental Management of Degraded Ecosystems (CEMDE). The network…...

3+ mon, 5+ day ago  (1851+ words) Published: Jan 28, 2026 11: 47 IST - 26 MINS READ It takes me two misses to accept that GPS is of no help in Umrisain village in Rishikesh. The third time round, the signboard for the Phool Chatti Ashram comes up in clear view. So…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (448+ words) Published: Jan 08, 2026 18: 10 IST His father, the liberal economist Dhananjayrao Gadgil, served on the commission overseeing water supply from the Koyna Dam. After one meeting he said, "Madhav, electricity is essential for industrial progress. But we must not pay for it…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1552+ words) Published: Jan 05, 2026 20: 17 IST - 12 MINS READ Stretching roughly 670 kilometres across north-western India'from Delhi through Haryana and Rajasthan to Gujarat'the Aravallis form one of the subcontinent's oldest and most critical ecological systems. They function as a natural barrier against desertification, a major…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago  (449+ words) Published: Nov 12, 2025 08: 42 IST - 10 MINS READ Also Read | Dammed in the'Himalayas The communities living in upper Spiti Valley are mostly Tibetan Buddhists, and largely agro-pastoral. Most pastoral communities, since they rely on livestock for their livelihood, have always been antagonistic towards…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago  (641+ words) Cynd, or kind, once meant both nature and kin. Real conservation starts with that memory, that saving the wild means staying part of it. In the age of extinction, be cynd "Cynd, or kind, once meant both nature and kin....

5+ mon, 2+ week ago  (354+ words) Published: Nov 12, 2025 08: 25 IST - 11 MINS READ The findings unsettled local prejudices. Many mainstream communities like the Khasis and the Jaintias view the Biates'a smaller, often marginalised community'as forest destroyers. True, the Jaintia Hills are being hollowed out. But the depredation is…...