Patches of green

Even after 10 years, the joint forest management programme has made little headway

Forest dwellers intensify protest

21 years on, profit sharing under joint forest management remains unclear in Maharashtra

Forest dwellers intensify protest

21 years on, profit sharing under joint forest management remains unclear in Maharashtra

10 villages to get forest benefits

Maharashtra to finally give JFM villages their due, but the share is bigger, say activists

Indonesia agrees to share bird flu virus samples with WHO

'CBD has lost its track'

Bolivia is one of the few countries that has consistently been opposing treating biodiversity as a commodity at the ongoing Conference of Parties …

Mining Bill gives people their due

It ensures that mine owners share profit with people

'Biodiversity authority needs autonomy'

Balakrishna Pisupati was the first biodiversity expert to head India's National Biodiversity Authority (NBA) and had more than six months to go …

Biodiversity eroded

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'Microbes can be patented'

Nations to share genetic resources

Activists call the text of the agreement vague

Lobbying begins

Just before mining bill is tabled in Parliament, industry calls profit-sharing a burden. Government is unsure

Sikkim to delegate powers to local people to protect lakes

Mendha Lekha's struggle for bamboo rights

Diversion route

Cabinet dilutes new mining bill

Alters provision on sharing of profits with affected people

‘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

Amendment without correction

Mines and minerals amendment bill falls short of meaningful reform

Give us 18 sq km

Forest paradox

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

‘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.…

Biodiversity body claims coal

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

Tawa Matsya Sangh, fishing co-operative in Madhya Pradesh, loses licence

Struck at the root

Livelihood of 2,000 families is threatened as the Maharashtra forest department tries to ban extraction of lotus roots