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A powerful earthquake hit Myanmar on March 28, spreading to neighbouring Thailand and China. The earthquake collapsed buildings in Thailand’s capital, Bangkok.

Myanmar-Thailand quake: Everything you need to know about earthquakes

Central Myanmar was struck by a magnitude 7.7 earthquake, with tremors reaching Thailand and south-west China.

Daniel’s forest lizard.

First Animal: Poems for a Betrayed Island

Ten poems in response to “Lost in the Wild”, Frontline, April 15, 2025.

FOREST RIGHTS ACT

Forest rights activists fear mass evictions as Supreme Court set to hear crucial FRA case on April 2

Campaign for Survival and Dignity says 17 lakh tribal and forest-dwelling families face imminent threat of eviction, risking livelihoods.

Frontline News Desk

Lost in the Wild — The Lede

The sixth mass extinction is here—and it’s killing humans too

India’s vanishing wildlife is no longer just a biodiversity crisis—it is a public health emergency born of human-induced ecological collapse.

The researcher says the FRA recognises a community-driven approach towards landscapes and overrides all other forest-related laws.

Lost in the Wild

Human-wildlife conflict can reduce only if community rights are recognised: C.R. Bijoy

Despite the FRA, forest departments still control forests, not forest-dwellers and gram sabhas, says the researcher of natural resource conflicts.

Lost in the Wild

Indian grey wolf: Persecuted guardian of the grasslands

Rarer than tigers, the endangered predator is nearly forgotten. Once killed as vermin, its biggest threat now is hybridisation with domestic dogs.

Mihir Godbole,Abi Tamim Vanak

Lost in the Wild

Editor’s Note: A sanctuary for the few, a graveyard for the many

Public habitats are vanishing, while private ventures flaunt luxurious animal care. Meanwhile, the state retreats from ecological responsibility.

More stories from Environment

A man stands to see the lashing high waves which started to rise as the sea’s water level increased after an aftershock tremor in Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar Island, on January 04, 2005.

Mathias calls it ‘the death of life’

A tsunami survivor’s dire warning as Great Nicobar’s sacred forest faces obliteration by the ‘megaproject’.

The Nicobar long-tailed macaque happens to be “a remarkably understudied species”, primatologists point out.

Nicobar macaque faces extinction risk as mega project threatens habitat

A group of primatologists says the Rs.81,000-crore project will clear over a million trees, endangering the endemic Nicobar long-tailed macaque.

Frontline News Desk

Climate change cost the planet $16 million per hour from 2000 to 2019, a figure that continues to rise.

Climate finance needs innovation—and accountability from the wealthy

Traditional funding falls short—bold innovations in carbon pricing, AI-driven tracking and subsidy reform are key to bridging the climate finance gap.

While the budget prioritised renewable energy and green hydrogen, fossil fuel subsidies and lack of adaptation financing threaten its net-zero ambitions. (Representational Image)

India’s climate strategy falls short of its green ambitions

Despite clean energy strides, gaps in adaptation, water security, and green finance hinder India’s path to sustainable, climate-resilient growth.

Souryabrata Mohapatra,Amit Mitra

The leatherback turtle is the world’s largest sea turtle species, renowned for its distinctive leathery shell and remarkable long-distance migrations. This photo captures one of these turtles laying eggs on a secluded beach in the Great Nicobar Islands.

Are Giant Leatherback hatchlings from Galathea Bay being relocated?

The recent release of turtle hatchlings on an unsuitable and non-natal beach in Great Nicobar raises conservation questions.

Rishika Pardikar

While the government defends the highly contentious project on strategic and economic grounds, experts highlight concerns over governmental transparency, displacement of tribes, and environmental sustainability.

Centre denies receiving objections from tribal communities on Great Nicobar Project

Union Minister Jual Oram tells Parliament that no objections were received from tribal councils or activists, despite documented opposition.

Devotees offer prayers on the occasion of the Hindu festival of ‘Chhath Puja’ in New Delhi on November 07, 2024, on the banks of river Yamuna as toxic foam floats on the water.

Cleaning the Yamuna: Will Delhi’s new government succeed where others failed?

Only 2 per cent of the Yamuna flows through urban Delhi, yet it holds over 80 per cent of the river’s pollution. Crores spent, little progress.

Let’s talk about the Great Nicobar project

In this webinar, experts discuss new developments in the controversial Rs.80,000 crore Great Nicobar Island project.

The Teesta River in Sikkim. Local people blame the Sikkim government for giving permission to build several megadams on the Teesta River basin.

Sikkim divests stake in profitable Teesta III project to Greenko amid questions

Government cites debt concerns while selling 60.8 per cent share in hydroelectric venture that showed sixfold profit increase.

A Teesta Hydroelectric Power Project on the banks of the Teesta in east district, Sikkim.

What’s behind the haste to rebuild Teesta III dam?

The Centre’s rush to renew the dam just 16 months after a catastrophic flood destroyed it raises serious questions about priorities and process.

A thin stream of water, seeping through a mountain pass, is the only source of water in Kelhariya village in Chandauli, Uttar Pradesh. It lasts for a few months each year.

Kelhariya waits for water as promises run dry

Bypassed by development and lacking roads, schools, or reliable water, this Uttar Pradesh village depends on a seasonal trickle from a mountain pass.

Rohan Pethiyagoda says he does not think the Sri Lankan government officially responded to the indictment of Adani Green Energy in the US.

Relieved that the Adani wind energy project, far from transparent, has been annulled: Rohan Pethiyagoda

The scientist says renewable energy projects are vital for Sri Lanka, and Indian bidders are welcome if due process is followed in negotiating bids.

Nirupama Subramanian

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