SHILLONG, India — Tambor Lyngdoh made his way through the fern-covered woodland — naming plants, trees, flowers, even stones — as if he were paying older family members a visit. The community leader ...

In 2021, the village of Kodalpalli in Odisha’s Nayagarh district became one of the few places in India where the country’s landmark Forest Rights Act of 2006 (FRA) was translated into formal rights ...

Alok Shukla, the youngest of eight siblings, grew up in a village in Central India. He was a nature lover from a young age. It was just a short walk to streams where he could splash around and trees ...

Paniyeli, once a flourishing village in the Western Ghats, now faces desolation as residents abandon their homes due to human-animal conflict and lack of educational opportunities. Crop raids by ...

Seven people were sent to judicial custody by a court in India's eastern Odisha state for attacking Christian families in villages and forcing them to flee their homes after they refused to give up ...