5/21/2013: Metro: State rejects construction curbs in Western ...

Sticking to its stand that the recommendations submitted by the Gadgil Committee to protect Western Ghats not be implemented, the Laity Commission of the Syro Malabar Church is planning to take up the issue with the United Nations (UN). Gadgil ...

Attacks report on Western Ghats as favouring rich and powerful illegalities. Well-known ecologist Madhav Gadgil has now joined many environmentalists in attacking former Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) head K Kasturirangan's high-level working group ...

An open letter from environmentalist and chairman of Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel (WGEEP) Madhav Gadgil to K Kasturirangan, chairman of the High Level Working Group (HLWG) set up to review the recommendations of Gadgil panel, has opened a ...

An open letter from Madhav Gadgil says Kasturirangan panel report will rob the region of its biodiversity Dear Dr. K. Kasturirangan, J.B.S. Haldane, the celebrated 19th-century scientist and humanist who quit England protesting its imperialistic invasion of ...

The partitioning of about one-third of natural landscapes and throwing open of two-thirds of so-called cultural landscapes to development will eventually lead to fragmentation and desertification of the Western Ghats, said ecologist Madhav Gadgil. Gadgil ...

Kerala News: Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala Cabinet on Wednesday decided to oppose declaration of any populated area on the Western Ghats in the State as ecologically sensitive area. The Cabinet also decided to entrust the Public Service Commission ...

Nowhere are the virgin rain forests too far from the greedy axe.

A 30-member Thunderbolt commando team of the state police, which reached Thrissur on Sunday, took out massive combing operations at Vellikulangara and Pariyaram forest ranges in search of suspected Maoists on Monday. The operations were carried out ...

R.Kannan works in the Western Ghats to restore hills. He says how everybody can and must contribute to change the Earth Trees and bees are my passion, declares R.Kannan, the man who for three decades has been teaching villagers and farmers across Tamil Nadu ...