Wetland management is drawing increasing flak for advocating misdirected conservation strategies and disregarding local needs

The panda, recognised the world over as the symbol of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), has just been saved from a doom of another kind. Justice P K Bahri of the Delhi High Court passed an order

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

A programme in Zimbabwe strives to conserve wildlife and maintain development on the premise that villagers will utilise natural resources in a sustainable manner if they can perceive the benefits to them

Environmental groups are agitated that Washington's controversial interpretation of the Biodiversity Convention distorts the spirit of the treaty.

Controversy continues to dog the helicopter crash in Corbett National Park last year, with the Indian branch of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) filing a case recently in Delhi High

Rio saw the largest ever gathering of NGOs over 2,000 of them. And finally the world was forced to acknowledge that NGOs were the real voice of the people

26 Jun 2012

The significance of Rio + 20 does not lie in any document but in the new direction provided to global governance, whose focus should be on patterns of natural resource use, and not just on natural capital, to ensure human well being.

 

Billed as wonder crop, the establishment of jatropha plantations on the ground in Tanzania has been far from successful, or, in some cases, ethical: a report.

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