May 2018: Editorial
Biodiversity… the running thread of life! A group of tourists were meeting and interacting with some tribal elders in a dense forest region. When it […]
Biodiversity
Interview: Sheeba Sen, Founder Alaap
Sheeba Sen is the founder and managing head (leader) of Alaap. An environmental organisation based out of the Himalayas’, Alaap is a social enterprise working […]
Biodiversity and the City – Challenges for India
Once considered a predominantly rural country, India is rapidly urbanizing. Although less than 1/3rdof India’s population now lives in cities, in the next two decades […]
Issue 19: Big Business – Major Destroyer of Diversity
Editorial: Big Business – Major Destroyer of Diversity Most literate people who know the word ‘biodiversity’ will agree today that it is essential for long-term survival […]
Nature Knows Us – Do We Know Nature
Satish Kumar, eco-philosopher and Editor of the Resurgence Magazine, wonders about the nature of intelligence. Planet Earth, he says, is a self-organising, self-managing and self-correcting […]
Everything I Need to Know I Learned in the Forest…
“Indian civilization has been distinctive in locating its source of regeneration, material and intellectual, in the forest, not the city. India’s best ideas have come […]
The Role of diversity in the Natural World
Author and activist Derrick Jensen says that apart from destroying bio-diversity on Earth, we are collapsing the diversity of knowledge and expressions we consider important. Printed […]
Indigenous Knowledge can help Preserve Biodiversity
Modelled on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the new IPBES is mandated to bridge the gulf between authoritative biodiversity-related information, knowledge, insights and […]
The Unusual aspect of Environment Diversity
Diversity provides us with a wide range of objects for various sciences. We enjoy recreational activities in wilderness areas. We might also claim that we […]
Busting the Forest Myths: People as Part of the Solution
The long-held contention that rural forest communities are the prime culprits in tropical forest destruction is increasingly being discredited, as evidence mounts that the best […]