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Forests
Invite to the conference on conservation science and sustainable development
Posted on 07 Jan, 2017 10:34 PMIn order to celebrate 20 years of ATREE and to call attention to current challenges in biodiversity conservation, environment and development, ATREE has organized a two day international conference in January, 2017.
The sea mouths crisis
Posted on 06 Jan, 2017 11:21 PMLingaraj Jena is a worried man. At 86, he is one of the older fishermen in Berhampura village, an island on the Chilika lake in Odisha. Though he no longer goes for fishing due to old age, he is worried about the opening of new sea mouths; he knows it is not good news for the fishing communities he is a part of that depend on the Chilika for their livelihood.
![A view of the Chilika in the evening.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/30347858053_a6bb48c3f4_o.jpg?itok=6KFn0RE8)
Saving the Ganga, one step at a time
Posted on 21 Dec, 2016 09:11 AMAn aerospace engineer from IIT, Kharagpur, Siddharth Agarwal could have been drawing a fancy salary like any other 25-year-old if he hadn’t followed his passion.
![Siddharth Agarwal (Photo credit-Siddharth Agarwal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/12916694_10153341192037373_5456143043051880350_o.jpg?itok=05KgJG4m)
Summer of discontent
Posted on 14 Dec, 2016 11:35 AMOn a 29 sq km tract of land in Bharatpur, Rajasthan lies the wildlife reserve, Keoladeo national park, locally known as Ghana. Birds enjoy the open water while wildlife roams freely in this montage of wetland, grassland and forest. The wetland, which is man-made, has a diversity of open water, trees and grasses.
![An Indian cormorant dries its wings at Keoladeo national park, Bharatpur. (Source: Aastha Singh, Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/an_indian_cormorant_drying_its_wings-aastha-singh.jpg?itok=3i--H-Xj)
NGT cancels illegal salt pans in Sambhar Lake
Posted on 13 Dec, 2016 07:19 AMGood news for Sambhar Salt Lake
![Sambhar Lake, India's largest salt lake. (Source: IWP's Flickr photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/2971840426_eb67304faf_z.jpg?itok=go_RIKLM)
Breathing life into Baitarani
Posted on 12 Dec, 2016 12:13 PMPranab Choudhury has been actively engaged with the causes of the poor and the environment for more than a decade.
![Pranab Choudhury](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/thumb_dsc0041_1024.jpg?itok=Zn5i5BzD)
No land for nomads
Posted on 24 Nov, 2016 10:38 PMDhangars, a semi-nomadic group in Maharashtra, are traditionally pastoralists.
![Dhangars are pastoralists in Maharashtra. (Source: India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/dhangars_1.jpg?itok=28ZUcaGF)
Should wildlife suffer in the name of water?
Posted on 06 Nov, 2016 09:47 PMSet in India-ka-dil, Madhya Pradesh, is the unending expanse of Panna.
![Ken river flows through Panna tiger reserve. (Source: K Gagan, Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/ken-river-panna-tiger-resreve-k-gagan-wikimedia-commons.jpg?itok=bMyWQzRZ)
Maha battle over water
Posted on 03 Nov, 2016 12:07 PMIt’s a battle that dates back to 1957. Two states of India--Madhya Pradesh (MP) and Odisha--have fought fiercely over the water of the Mahanadi they share. When Chhattisgarh was carved out of MP in 2000, it inherited both the Mahanadi and the conflict with Odisha over its water.
![Mahanadi river](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/dsc05648tps.jpg?itok=RqUC3Qns)
Yettinahole project clearance hits a roadblock
Posted on 31 Oct, 2016 10:46 PMForest clearance to Yettinahole project gets challenged
![River Nethravathi (Source: Parineeta Dandekar via SANDRP)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/dsc03688_0_0.jpg?itok=qvmhQIy6)