The United Nations has announced a new biosphere reserve in Brazil's Pantanal region, the largest tropical wetland ecosystem in the world. The country's biologists are hoping that Pantanal's new

the indigenous community of 61 villages in Melghat of Amravati district, Maharashtra, are in constant fear of being evicted from their homes and losing standing crops due to Project Tiger. Two

Neither Project Tiger nor the eco development project can end the conflicts between the forest officials and the villagers in Ranthambhore

The Lacandon forest, the land of the Mayans, is fast disappearing. Only about one third of the area is still intact. The forests may last only for 15 years if crop burning, forest fires, insufficient

Conservationists and environmentalists are worried that the construction of Vietnam's second major north-south highway could have a devastating environmental impact. Although acknowledging the

The Guwahati high court has asked the state

ireland has been hauled up by the European Commission ( ec ) for its