Cultivation of Niger seed, if promoted, could reduce India's olive oil imports. India imported olive oil worth $8.37 million in 2022, making it the 14th largest importer of olive oil in the world.

According to a recent report, India is the largest producer of plastic waste in the world, producing 9.3 million metric tons of plastic waste annually. But Arun Shende, a young entrepreneur from Pandhurna, looks at these figures from a different angle.

Climate change and rising temperatures can lead to habitat loss and changes in vegetation, impacting food availability. Heat stress can weaken elephants' immune systems.

In the year 2020 alone, Pench had witnessed 17 human-tiger conflicts in which 6 people had lost their lives. An organization named Grow-Trees is running a project named Trees for Tigers in a village adjacent to the forests of Pench, keeping this issue at the center.

In the early 2000s, significant efforts were made to ban the practice of dancing bears in various regions, particularly through initiatives led by organizations like the Wildlife SOS in India.

Due to increasing windmills, changing farming practices, and a lack of coordination between the local community and forest department, the Number of Kharmor (Lesser Florican) in the state was reduced to zero.

According to the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC), a staggering 1,160 elephants were killed in the country due to non-natural causes over the a decade, till December 31, 2020.

The tribals of Betul have also changed their methods of collecting forest produce to prevent forest fires and this effort has also had an effect, as compared to the year 2021, incidents of fire have reduced significantly.

A survey reveals that thousands of livestock are let to graze freely until September or October, when sowing begins for the following season's rabi crop marking a rise in Anna Pratha.

On Ground | Madhya Pradesh | Jashraj shared how the farmers of his village were unable to go up to their fields with water filled over across the route.