New amendments to India’s existing green laws in the last couple of years have sparked a fierce backlash from activists, social groups and NGOs across the country. Many have argued that the regulatory powers to protect India’s large forest cover and the people dependent on it were severely weakened in just a few strokes. Among […]
As 2023 draws to a close, so, too, does the first full year of Mongabay’s Conservation Reporting Fellowships. Launched at a time of unprecedented planetary upheaval, the program aims to build a new generation of environmental reporters from the world’s biodiversity hotspots. This is the future of reporting on Earth as we know it now […]