At least five farmers were shot dead and four others injured at a protest in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday, according to local media reports.
Kaziranga National Park is a story of success when it comes to conservation of rhinos – but what they’ve done to achieve it is allowing its workers to shoot and even kill potential poachers.
An Indian court has recognised Himalayan glaciers, lakes and forests as “legal persons” in an effort to curb environmental destruction, weeks after it granted similar status to the country’s two most sacred rivers.
Survival International has launched a boycott of Kaziranga National Park in India – notorious for its “shoot on sight” conservation tactics – beginning this World Wildlife Day (March 3). 106 people have reportedly been killed in the park in the last 20 years.
NAPM says, “Government reports and judicial judgments prove that dams are one of the root cause of the disasters that are happening in India”, suggesting they lead to such devastations like the one which took place in 2013 in Uttarkhand.
Thousands of Gujarat-based Narmada dam oustees blocked the road leading to the spot where the dam is located in the Kevadiya colony. 150 of them were arrested.
A proposed new forests policy in India has been hastily withdrawn after an outcry that it made no mention of tribal peoples’ existing rights to live in their forests, and would have led to more tribes being evicted from their homes.
Folks were protesting against the arrest of Lama Lobsang Gyatso, who has been organizing villagers against the destructive hydropower projects in Tawang.
At least 45 small whales (short-finned pilot whales), part of the lot which washed ashore in Tiruchendur in Tamil Nadu on Monday evening, have died.
New data reveals tiger numbers have increased rapidly in the first reserve in India where local tribes have won the right to stay. The information discredits government policy to remove the many tribes whose lands have been turned into tiger reserves.