Tree planting pushes out pastoralists in the Himalayas
January 19, 2021
Poorly planned tree planting programmes in Himachal Pradesh have squeezed pastoralists and put greater pressure on fragile ecosystems
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Articles conservation and loss of animals and plants, including forests, wetlands and permafrost degradation
January 19, 2021
Poorly planned tree planting programmes in Himachal Pradesh have squeezed pastoralists and put greater pressure on fragile ecosystems
January 15, 2021
After a chance sighting, writer Nimesh Ved explores how India’s endangered river dolphin is faring in Uttar Pradesh, and asks how the inland waterways project will affect it
January 12, 2021
The endangered birds, locally called Garuda, repay by killing farm pests
January 11, 2021
For over 20 years, Mising people have been victims of restrictive conservation policies in the same forest that is being opened up to industry and mining
January 06, 2021
Overuse of water, poaching, garbage force birds away from Punjab’s very special lakes, till revival of a plan brings hope
January 01, 2021
Environmental destruction and climate change are driving pandemics, with the Hindu Kush Himalayas a potential hotspot for new emerging diseases
December 29, 2020
The saiga antelope has been around since the Ice Age, but poaching, habitat loss and mass die-offs were catastrophic until conservation across Central Asia started to work
December 25, 2020
Scientists hope recent border clashes in the Himalayas and the pandemic will not derail the limited progress made on research cooperation over the past decade
December 02, 2020
In the run-up to the next biodiversity summit, the report card from the critically important region is worrying, say experts from the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development
November 26, 2020
The government committee denies environmental clearance, even as illegal riverbed mining continues all over northern India