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India@75

1985: Narmada Bachao Andolan

The Narmada Valley project was conceived in 1946, but work on it started only in 1978.
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1973: Chipko movement starts

It was successful primarily because of its simplicity and the involvement of locals.
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1973: Project Tiger

After Project Tiger, their population has shown a gradual rise.
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World Lion Day

Why the Asiatic Lion needs a second home

Kuno in Madhya Pradesh is still waiting for the translocation of lions from Gir forest.
Ravi Chellam
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Environment

Where would the proposed Forest Conservation Rules leave forest dwellers?

The results can be disastrous for both indigenous communities and the environment.
Divya Trivedi
Urbanisation

Where are Bengaluru’s lakes?

Bengaluru has lost most of them to urbanisation and pollution. And to the politics of encroachment.
Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed
Conservation

How African cheetahs trumped Asiatic lions in India’s conservation debate

How politics has allowed African cheetahs to trump Asiatic lions in India’s conservation discourse.
Ravi Chellam

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Protests after the Chhattisgarh government gave its final assent for clearing trees for the Parsa opencast mining project in Hasdeo Arand. 

How are Chhattisgarh’s tribals fighting back miners in central India’s densest forest?

Indigenous communities in Chhattisgarh’s Hasdeo Arand forests are fighting back mining activity, an incursion that is rife with allegations of wrongdo
Pragathi Ravi
Farmers in Kuttanad try to rebuild an agricultural bund to protect their paddy fields, in September 2018. Kerala witnessed the worst floods in nearly a hundred years that year, and the Kuttanad region, known as the rice bowl of Kerala, suffered severe devastation.

Kuttanad: The next vanishing wetland?

Kuttanad in Kerala, a unique wetland under threat from extreme climate events and ecological destruction, urgently needs a long-term strategy.
M. Gopakumar
Great hornbill male.

Are hornbills in danger due to extreme weather conditions? 

Researchers monitoring the breeding habits of three hornbill species in the Pakke Tiger Reserve in Arunachal Pradesh for 22 years observed that extrem
Aparajita Datta
Ayurvedic medicines on display at a free medical camp at the Ayurvedic Medical College in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, on June 21, 2021.

Corporate control over biodiversity? That’s what this new Bill would like to see

The Biological Diversity (Amendment) Bill marks a significant shift from the democratic thrust of the existing law to one that favours corporate contr
Ritwick Dutta
Tagged turtles heading back to the Arabian sea.

On the turtle’s trail 

The satellite-tagging of five Olive Ridley turtles marks the beginning of a milestone project in sea turtle conservation on the western coast of India
Lyla Bavadam
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