Lost in interpretation - Maharashtra

Japanese biopiracy of our Ballia barley

Japan’s Sapporo brewery patents Indian barley gene without giving benefit to farmers

It’s not just about a good holiday

Making ecotourism work for all stakeholders requires a new vision

Election 2014: How green are our political parties?

A look at the future of green clearances through the manifestos of political parties in the electoral fray

Village throws a googly

Remote Eklehara has challenged what can be classified as a bio-resource and who should benefit from its use

Crazy for GI? Think again

The protection of Geographical Indication is not a guarantee that the artisan or producer will benefit; traders can corner the premium

Is coal mineral or bioresource?

Biodiversity board in Madhya Pradesh challenges coal companies

Legislation for a few

Benefits of the Act that encourages conservation of plants reach few farmers

Mendha Lekha's struggle for bamboo rights

Benefit interrupted

Biodiversity authority prepares a weak draft of guidelines on access and benefit sharing of natural resources

Undermined

Ordinance to reform the mining sector will do more harm than good

Mining for people

New mining bill to ensure industry shares its super-profits with affected people

Don’t just cash in on tigers

Nature-based tourism: from rhetoric to reality

Cabinet dilutes new mining bill

Alters provision on sharing of profits with affected people

20 years to…where?

No transparency - Andhra Pradesh

From forestry to productive forestry

Hunters turn protectors

Traditional hunters Phase Pardhis are part of an initiative to save critically endangered lesser floricans

Missing timber for wood

As the demand-supply gap for timber widens in India, it is time to exploit the potential of private plantations and government-managed forests in …

Bamboo liberation day

According to former environment minister Jairam Ramesh, minor forest produce is a ownership right vested by Parliament under Forest Rights Act

‘We have no time for emission offsets’

For 10 years Jutta Kill has monitored and critiqued EU’s climate policy and carbon trading with a focus on forests and the rights of forest …

Call of the phantom

Government fails to effectively execute Project Snow Leopard

The Kani learning

How benefit-sharing between a research institute and the Kani tribe went awry

The secret garden

Want to know about a lost variety of rice or a cure to asthma? Answers lie in the notebooks of schoolchildren and women of the Sundarbans and …

Amendment without correction

Mines and minerals amendment bill falls short of meaningful reform