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Potential of intact forests in mitigating climate risks undermined: Report

While deforestation alone accounted for 3.2% of gross carbon emissions, selective logging, …
A tree that was cut down in the Aarey Colony. Photo: @SRKs_Rani/Twitter

What Aarey case means for forest land classification

The question of classification of the land as forest or revenue isn’t relevant in the …
It’s not just Brazil's Amazon rainforest that’s ablaze – Bolivian fires are threatening people and wildlife

It’s not just Brazil's Amazon rainforest that’s ablaze – Bolivian fires are threatening people and wildlife

At least 500 species are said to be at risk from the flames that burned up to 800,000 …
Native tree species are climate resilient, maintain ecological balance

Native tree species are climate resilient, maintain ecological balance

Introducing exotic species and promoting monoculture plantations in forest areas, village …

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Forests

'Amazon region under threat from oil drilling, mining'

Ecuadorian Amazon. Photo: Getty Images
Sacred Headwaters of the Amazon, considered to be the most biodiverse terrestrial ecosystem …
October 16, 2019
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Bombay High Court dismisses Aarey petitions

Aarey Colony in Mumbai. Photo: Google Maps
The pleas filed by activists were dismissed on the principle of commonality, not on merits, …
October 04, 2019
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Forests

Centre, US agency launch Forest-PLUS 2.0

Forest-PLUS 2.0 comprises pilot project in three landscapes – Gaya in Bihar, Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala and Medak in Telangana. Photo: Getty Images
Five-year programme to focus on improving status of forests in three terrains in Bihar, …
September 26, 2019
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FRA in SC: 3 intervention applications from Wildlife First ahead

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The apex court will decide whether to take them up in September 12 hearing 
September 09, 2019
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Blogs

V Sundararaju
V Sundararaju

Amended Tamil Nadu forest Act must be cautiously exercised

Vaishnavi Rathore
Vaishnavi Rathore

New awakenings in the trans-Himalaya

V Sundararaju
V Sundararaju

How alien invasive plant species threaten Western Ghats

Interviews

‘Indigenous people have been effective stewards of biodiversity globally’

Prakash Kashwan ,Prakash Kashwan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Connecticut, Storrs

'There are more than 60,000 tree species in the world & my book had room for only 80!'

Jonathan Drori,The author is a Trustee of The Woodland Trust and The Eden Project, an Ambassador for the WWF and was for nine years a Trustee of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. He is a Fellow of the Linnean Society and the Zoological Society of London.

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Food

The Aranya story: turning barren land into a food forest using permaculture

Padma and Narsanna Koppula have turned a barren piece of land in Telangana's Medak district into a food forest by engaging the community that lives around it. Here's their story
Forests

Will India lose one of its last patches of Jurassic forest?

Food

Food safari in deserts of Rajasthan

Environment

The Chipko movement as it stands today

Forests

Under the Sal Tree—theatre of nature

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