Forests

Experts raise concerns with nearly 48,000 rejected community claims
Forests

Nearly 48,000 rejected community forest rights claims show FRA implementation failures: Experts

Chitta Ranjan Pani
5 min read
Mass rejections highlight flawed mapping practices and weakening of local-decision making powers
Furnitures made with Enwud.
Environment

World Environment Day: India’s rise of bio-composites offers a way to build without deforesting

Manali Joshi
5 min read
Bio-composites like Enwud promise cooler, more resilient cities by replacing timber and plywood in interiors and furniture
World Environment Day: Guardians of the commons and the living forests of Odisha’s community-led conservation movement
Forests

World Environment Day: Guardians of the commons and the living forests of Odisha’s community-led conservation movement

Nivedita Panda
8 min read
Built on ritual, rights and everyday vigilance, Odisha’s conservation commons offer a different imagination of environmental stewardship
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (June 1, 2026)
Science has only recently started discovering the importance of biocrusts; the ‘restoration’ of Delhi’s Central Ridge is destroying these very chemical engineers
Adivasi campaigners seek dissolution of FRA task forces, alleging institutional bypass and parallel governance
In Europe, forests may still be standing, but climate change is making it harder for them to reproduce
Agroforestry offers a sustainable pathway for small and marginal farmers in India’s rain-fed regions
Simply Put: Let our forests be
When mines closed, a hill healed: the Shankargarh model of community-led restoration
Maharashtra’s shift away from plantation targets is acknowledgement that ecological restoration is not only about forests
Simply Put: Housing crisis
As anti-Maoist operations in Chhattisgarh intensified, so did the backlog of pending FRA claims, analysis shows
Uttarakhand’s van panchayats survived the British. They may not survive a state steadily governing communities out of their own forests
Two key targets — reversing forest loss and eliminating extreme poverty among forest-dependent populations remain off track, finds UN report
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