Detractors of Kenya Wildlife Services director Richard Leakey scored a major victory when he resigned for the second time in late March

People's action in West Bengal have been commended in the form of the J Paul Getty conservation prize to the forest Protection Committees (PFCs) of the state by the World Wide Fund for Nature, "in

SIRPA Pietikainen, Finland's environment minister, says the world has quite a few things to learn from India, especially when it comes to environment and more specifically, forests. Eloquent on issues on which there are strong perceptional differences bet

IT WAS nearly a decade ago that the government of India had tried to revise the Indian Forest Act of 1927, a British legacy that brought immense misery to forest-dwellers and has been unable to save

With government efforts proving inadequate, private organisations recycle the lion's share of urban waste in India.

Though programmes involving villagers in the regeneration of forest lands have been successful, caution should be exercised while bringing new areas under such programmes

The Karnataka forest department will launch joint forest planning and management programmes beginning this September, according to forests and wildlife minister M P Keshavamurthy. The programmes are

The US President is finding it difficult to strike a policy balance between protecting the endangered spotted owl and the jobs of loggers in three states.

The hilly tract of Uttara Kannada district in the Western Ghats of India has been famous for its arecanut and spice orchards for several centuries. The cultivators have evolved complex horticultural practices to maintain productivity under conditions of high rainfall, hilly terrain and leached soils.

The total preservation policy has alienated people living in and around national parks and caused much harm to the forests. Experts say effective conservation will not be possible unless this policy is reversed.

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