‘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 …

Robbed of the sea

Don’t just cash in on tigers

Nature-based tourism: from rhetoric to reality

20 years to…where?

No transparency - Andhra Pradesh

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 …

From forestry to productive forestry

The Kani learning

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

It’s still open season for bio-piracy

Rich nations block accord on benefit-sharing rules for the world’s genetic resources

Call of the phantom

Government fails to effectively execute Project Snow Leopard

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 …

Forestry, the Mexican way

Amendment without correction

Mines and minerals amendment bill falls short of meaningful reform

Knowledge initiative on Agriculture bad for farmers

Time a resource curse got lifted

Give us 18 sq km

No freeloaders

Forest paradox

To give forest dwellers their due rights, forest governance must go beyond the environment and include the communities at stake

Letters

‘Forest department is the encroacher’

When V Kishore Chandra Deo became the Union Minister for Panchayati Raj and Tribal Affairs three months ago, both the ministries were in inertia.…

Our quality of mercy

Disclosure-shy industry

Pharma and biotech firms are lobbying hard to block disclosure of origin of genetic material used in inventions, but they also raise thorny issues

Forest value to be revised

50 per cent of net present value of forests should go to communities, says report

Biodiversity body claims coal

In a first-of-its-kind case, a biodiversity committee in Madhya Pradesh asks for royalty on coal