The environment ministry has started comprehensively amending the Act by “weeding out” and updating obsolete provisions
Rightful or rightless: Forest villagers in Saranda struggle to shed ‘illegal’ tag
Banni Maldharis approach NGT with reneged community forest rights claims
Environment ministry makes forest rights Act irrelevant in initial stage of forest clearance
Fire in Mumbai’s Aarey Colony a conspiracy, say activists
Environmentalists claim that the fire was used as a swift fix to the issue of cutting 2,702 trees for ...
Targeting of indigenous people fighting for forest rights in India is a fact, say experts
As a new report reveals a rise in the number of indigenous activists being killed for defending forest and ...
How alien invasive plant species threatens Western Ghats
Forest fires and man-eating tigers make for easy headlines but what about invading flora in a forest?
Himachal Pradesh’s decision to put wasteland in land bank undermines FRA
The state’s request to put degraded forest land in a land bank comes at a time when the government ...
Gujarat's Narmada district takes a step forward in forest governance
Five years after 20 villages in the district got their Community Forest Rights titles, their Gram Sabhas have developed ...
Villagers win brewing forest rights fight in Odisha
The Odisha government had to scrap a Rs 102 crore brewing project when resolute villagers braved the government and ...
Gadchiroli villages to move SC against Maharashtra forest body
Villagers are challenging the Forest Development Corporation of Maharashtra Ltd’s 2016 decision under which, it felled 385 hectares of ...
A decade on, only 40% of FRA claims approved
The latest status report of the FRA says most claims were rejected by either gram sabhas or district committees
Aarey's Chipko moment
The plan to clear Mumbai's last green cover is facing stiff resistance from citizens and non-profits
After Jairam Ramesh, now activists criticise green fund rules
They raise questions on the implementation of the rules and demand their withdrawal
Forest fires caused due to collection of non timber forest produce: government report
Forest rights activists say that blaming the communities for fires is wrong and often it is forest department's interventions that cause ...
Gujarat government backtracks on granting CFR rights to Maldharis
Despite granting 47 Community Forest Rights in 2015, the government, through a notification dated September 27, has asked for ...
Is PM Modi really a ‘Champion of the Earth’?
Even as the United Nations has selected India's PM for this year's award to honour his role in protecting ...
Indigenous peoples globally being ‘criminalised’ for defending their rights
Physical violence as well as legal prosecution is used to label defenders as ‘criminals’ and the process is becoming ...
Why increase in global tree cover does not call for celebration
Much of it could be due to the increase in planted forests, which are more vulnerable to extreme climatic events
How Brazil can beat the odds and restore a huge swathe of the Amazon
Native seed cultivation could represent a valuable source of income for local communities, boosting both conservation and the local ...
Just 32% tribal children consume healthy diet: expert committee
A report by an expert committee constituted by health ministry shows that malnutrition among tribals is more than among ...
Kenya's struggle to modernise traditional medicine is far from won
In the last two decades, neglect of traditional medicine has been replaced by renewed focus and a raft of policies and ...
Hunger strike for FRA implementation continues in Chhattisgarh; state yet to respond
Government has given land under the Individual Forest Rights titles, which is way less than what people originally occupied
Northeast losing canopy cover at alarming rate: study
The degree of deforestation was greater in Assam compared to Arunachal Pradesh, say researchers from the Indian Institute of ...
Green fund rules must be withdrawn, Ramesh tells Vardhan
The ex-environment minister writes to the current one saying the new rules make for a fit case to move ...