Kanha-Pench

Salve Beats a Hasty Retreat

Open

Harish Salve takes cover as Open turns on the heat over his disingenuous note to the Supreme Court on a highway expansion plan through Kanha-Pench.

Surrendering the Last Frontier

Jay Mazoomdaar

The Kanha-Pench landscape is one of India’s best four tiger habitats. But despite objections from the National Board for Wildlife, National Tiger Conservation Authority, Wildlife Institute of India and Supreme Court’s Central Empowered Committee, a highway might just deny the big cat its best chance of survival.