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Conservation

Bread and buffer

The Supreme Court strikes a blow for buffer zones around tiger reserves, but the rights of local people, including livelihoods, are also important.
RAKESH SHUKLA
Environment

In Corbett country

A journey across the terrain of the man-eating leopards of Jim Corbett.
A.J.T JOHNSINGH, BIVASH PANDAV AND A.S. NEGI
Conservation

Penance for Ganga

An environmental scientist continues his relentless battle to save the Ganga, this time by starting a fast unto death.
PURNIMA S. TRIPATHI
Environment

A walk in Sikkim

Conservation of the geographically diverse and bilogically rich state has become an ecological imperative.
TEXT & PHOTOGRAPHS: A.J.T. JOHNSINGH

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The Himalayan vulture, a critically endangered bird, at Kedarnath in Uttarakhand in this September 2011 photograph. Also known as Himalayan griffon, it feeds on carcasses.-K.R. DEEPAK

Vanishing vultures

Vultures continue to fall prey to diclofenac, banned as a veterinary drug, and remain on the IUCN's Red List.
LYLA BAVADAM
Soliga Adivasis and NGOs discussing the conservation plan for the Biligiri Rangaswamy Temple Sanctuary.-ASHISH KOTHARI

Green approach

An alternative conservation model for the BRT Sanctuary is a step closer to becoming a reality.
ASHISH KOTHARI, NITIN RAI AND C. MADEGOWDA
Amherstia nobilis, considered one of the most beautiful trees.-SHUBHADA NIKHARGE

Rooting for a garden

An uncertain future awaits Mumbai's 150-year-old botanical garden with rare and endangered tree species.
LYLA BAVADAM
A PAIR OF snow leopards in the high altitudes of the trans-Himalayan region. Project Snow Leopard, launched by the Ministry of Environment and Forests in 2009, focusses on conservation on a landscape level rather than in just protected areas.-

An encounter in snow

In the trans-Himalayan region, a conservation effort has reduced conflicts between snow leopards and pastoralists.
TEXT & PHOTOGRAPH: KULBHUSHANSINGH SURYAWANSHI
A grassland the middle of a semi-evergreen patch. Huge pits are dug in the grasslands for water conservation, which is not needed as the Sahyadris receive high rainfall.-A.J.T. JOHNSINGH

Saving Sahyadri

Tigers are on the retreat from the Sahyadris and the predator's preferred prey, the sambar, is on the decline.
A.J.T. JOHNSINGH, ATUL JOSHI AND M.K. RAO
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