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India at 75 | Timeline: Environment

There have been innumerable hurdles, but the battle remains spirited.

1985: Narmada Bachao Andolan

1973: Chipko movement starts

Where would the proposed Forest Conservation Rules leave forest dwellers?

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Where are Bengaluru’s lakes?

Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed

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

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Wetland Conservation

Kuttanad: The next vanishing wetland?

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Are hornbills in danger due to extreme weather conditions?

Aparajita Datta

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Wings of hope

Dr Vaithianathan Kannan Photographs by Abishek Mimani

While climate change has already affected both shorebird and seabird species the world over, the legal protection of the ecosystem holds out hope that

Through a chronicler's lens

Text by Leena Mariam Koshy Photographs by Percy Fernandez

Interview with Percy Fernandez, wildlife photographer who is Professor and Chairperson for the School of Media and Communication, Manipal Academy of H

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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. K. Stalin meets Governor R.N. Ravi, impresses upon him the need to forward anti-NEET Bill to the President immediately

R.K. Radhakrishnan

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin, called on Governor R.N. Ravi today and requested him to forward to the President the Tamil Nadu government’s Bi

The 21-day operation to capture tiger T23

M. Sathyamoorthy Photographs by M. Sathyamoorthy

It took 21 days for a team of forest staff, veterinarians, tribal trackers, elephants, sniffer dogs and drones to track down T23, the wounded dominant

On the trail of T23

M. Sathyamoorthy Photographs by M. Sathyamoorthy

It took 21 days for a team of forest staff, veterinarians, tribal trackers, elephants, sniffer dogs and drones to track down T23, the wounded dominant

An ecosystem in peril

SUHRID SANKAR CHATTOPADHYAY

Poaching and indiscriminate felling of trees constitute a serious threat to the unique ecosystem of the Sunderbans.

River as a living entity

Shrishtee Bajpai

Recognising river ecosystems or other entities of nature as having rights offers the possibility of managing and governing habitats based on the ecolo

The rights of rivers

Shrishtee Bajpai

Recognising river ecosystems or other entities of nature as having rights offers the possibility of managing and governing habitats based on the ecolo

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Mamallapuram: A monumental effort

T.S. SUBRAMANIAN Photographs by K. Gajendran

After a delay of about 40 years, the master plan to beautify Mamallapuram, a World Heritage Site, becomes a reality.

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A helping hand

In the Mumbai metropolitan area and its surroundings, the Resqink Association for Wildlife Welfare had its hands full during the lockdown, rescuing mo

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What's the big deal about water scarcity?

Access to clean drinking water is a human right, but population growth and a heating planet are making it more scarce.

Interview with Pawan Sharma, founder of the urban animal rescue NGO called Resqink

Interview with Pawan Sharma, founder of Resqink.

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Editor’s Note

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A rare moment when one can pause, look back, and take stock.

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Captured in time

As independent India turns 75, some of the defining images of those seven decades.