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Saalumarada Thimmakka’s story of planting banyan trees led to a determined quest to find her, and a show about her lifeWhen she was a teenage girl, Saalumarada Thimmakka planted her first banyan tree just outside the remote Indian village of Hulikal, i…
Read MoreExclusive: $9bn port, airport and military base on Great Nicobar Island will cause ‘genocide’ of isolated Shompen, academics warnAcademics from around the world have urged India to cancel a huge construction project on Great Nicobar Island, warning it …
Read MoreThe ban has been in place for more than five years to stop a pathogen killing the ancient trees, but the fight against the pathogen is not over yetThe lush Waitākere Ranges that line the western ridge of Auckland City, known as Tāmaki Makaurau, are hom…
Read MoreAdivasis in Banteji say they also face arrests, violence and harassment by police and company officialsFor months, they have been living in fear. The people of Banteji, a small tribal village amid the rolling green mountains deep in India’s Odisha stat…
Read MoreThe climate crisis and farmers opting to grow more lucrative timber is putting many bat-makers in Kashmir out of businessFor more than 100 years they have been making cricket bats from Kashmir’s willow trees. Along the highway leading to the town of Sa…
Read MoreThe harvesting of the luxury wood contributes to deforestation and profits from its sale support the country’s military regimeThousands of tons of timber from Myanmar have continued to be imported into the US, despite government sanctions against the c…
Read MoreScientists are learning the secrets of the greater racket-tailed drongo and other creatures in a jungle in south India from the people who have always lived thereIn the dense forests of south India’s Western Ghats, you may be lucky enough to spot a gre…
Read MoreNew Zealand researchers believe the isolated spruce could reveal much about the Southern Ocean, one of the world’s major carbon sinksIt is regarded as the “loneliest tree in the world” but the Sitka spruce on uninhabited Campbell Island has been keepin…
Read MoreThe country’s largest trees, kauri are threatened by dieback and climate change. But there is hope for the revered speciesLook out at the forest of Waitakere and you will see the skeleton of Aunt Agatha above the treeline. The tree – who gained her nic…
Read MoreIn a Maharashtra town that once relied on fishing, a women’s collective found boat safaris and edible wild plants pay – and help protect the forestOn a hot summer afternoon along the Mandavi River, Shweta Hule wraps her sari around her ankles and bends…
Read MoreAn on-call team at Amritsar’s tree hospital nurses sick neems and gives new life to troubled banyansSahib Singh clambers up a portable ladder, reaches out and, with the help of a few tools, tugs at the banyan tree and successfully removes it. The uproo…
Read MoreIllegal logging is robbing Indians of food, medicine and even saffron to dye monks’ robes. Now local people are fighting backIn the pitch dark, the volunteers walk for hours along roads surrounded by dense forest. They patrol in near silence, listening…
Read MoreMeghalaya state hopes for world heritage status for unique bridges, which can take decades to createIndia’s famous living bridges – the roots of trees coaxed and stretched into the form of a suspension bridge over a river – have been submitted to Unesc…
Read MoreVillagers rely more on the forest’s resources, threatening its ecosystem – and leaving them more vulnerable to cyclonesHelp us support those on the climate emergency’s frontlineAs he steps out of the mosque on the banks of the Kholpetua River, Mohammed…
Read MoreIndia’s tiger corridor and Australia’s possum ‘tunnel of love’ are among the myriad infrastructure projects providing safe passageHow creating wildlife crossings can help reindeer, bears – and even crabsRead more in our series Biodiversity: what happen…
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