First Lions and Now Cheetahs: Kuno-Palpur National Park’s Communities Prepare to Relocate For Conservation
Non-implementation of the Forest Rights Act, 2006 weighs heavily on Kuno-Palpur, leaving Adivasis with few options other than relocating for conservation.
Involving Local Participation: What the EIA 2020 Could Have Done
Part 1 of "Shrinking Negotiations" gave us a snapshot of a glaring gap in the Draft Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) 2020 notification. If passed,...
Infrastructure Projects In and Around Protected Areas Need to Be Held Financially Accountable
This is Part Two of #FinancingDevelopment, a series analysing the finances behind India’s development journey, in collaboration with the Centre for Financial Accountability. Read...
All Park and No Play
Written by Vaishnavi Rathore | This article is the first instalment of Vaishnavi’s series ‘Ecology and the City’, which explores how complications in urban...
In Southwest Delhi, Fields Have Been Underwater for the Last Two Decades
In Raota, a village in southwest Delhi, a blue wooden canoe floats. Four feet below the canoe is this year’s kharif paddy crop, now...
Shared Atmosphere, Equal Responsibility? Enter, Climate Debt
One of the greatest scientific discoveries was made in the 1700s. It was the realization that coal could be used to turn water into...
Redefining the Climate Change Conversation
Written by Rohit Nair
Climate change is widely regarded as the single biggest crisis threatening our collective future on this planet. A recent report published...
What’s wrong with the EIA 2020?
Research by Charith Reddy & Isha Malaviya
Edited & Presented by Sumit Krishna Yadav
The draft Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) 2020 has garnered a host...
Mapping the Illegal Trade of Wildlife on Social Media
Co-authored by Avantika Bunga and Kartik Sundar
The internet’s capacity to enable anonymity has attracted a slew of users who use it for illicit gains....
Firefighting in the Forests: What Goes Wrong Every Year
If we know when and where forest fires are likely to occur in India, then why is managing them such a challenge for communities and the Forest Department?
