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Biodiversity takes center stage in Odisha’s silent valley

“BMC members were trained on their duties and responsibilities ... and they are now organizing community awareness programs”

Bhimshankar village makes the most of nature’s trail

While promoting ecotourism, the villagers try to maintain a balance between conservation, livelihood and convenience

An Anti-Forest Policy: Rhetoric or Sleight of Hand?

A government intent on “building on our rich cultural heritage” and “participatory”, would provide the adivasis rightful space for self-governance

Surviving through Ages

Can trees survive with roots immersed permanently in water? For hundreds of years?? And human communities have protected them?

Unique study trains eyes on ‘Devrai’s

NGO, forest dept assessing sacred groves across Pune divn, encouraging residents to sustain beneficial traditions.

From Close Quarters: Protecting an Adivasi Culture the State Wants to Destroy

The unrest in and around Bastar is fundamentally about respect, dignity and trust in our behaviour towards other people

Sherdukpen: finding a recipe to fit the future

Enthusiastic bands of young people from this small tribal community in Arunachal Pradesh are trying to ind their future to their traditional roots

Why Meghalaya’s Slow Food Festival is something everyone needs

'Slow Food' is the entire process from cultivating organic food, in complete harmony with nature, to various traditional processes of preserving it, to finally giving the ingredients time to cook to perfection