Double whammy

Targeting of indigenous people fighting for forest rights in India is a fact, say experts

As a new report reveals a rise in the number of indigenous activists being killed for defending forest and land rights worldwide, Down To Earth …

Himachal Pradesh forest staff to be equipped with arms to curb smuggling

The personnel posted in the checkposts in these areas can carry pistols, guns, revolvers or rifles to check illegal felling and smuggling of trees

Left to dry

Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation hopes to arrest the city's dipping groundwater by reviving its dying lakes. But in the absence of strong wetland …

Andaman's settlement plans in a row

Reading 2021 NCRB report: Jump in forest-related crimes in Jharkhand

Jharkhand registered the maximum number of crimes under the Forest Act since 2012

Mangrove graves

MEXICO

Open floodgates

Will mere slum removals along Mithi stop Mumbai floods?

Fined out

PIL over forest slapped down

Hunting, fishing and farming remain the biggest threats to wildlife

A new study shows that by far the largest current hazards to biodiversity are overexploitation and agriculture

Kerala brick industry taking over rice fields

The fast-expanding brick industry (in Kerala) is causing irreversible damage to paddy-fields in a state that is already beset by an acute rice …

Tribals in danger

Extended lease

JFM in jeopardy

A proposal to regularise encroachments in forests creates a flutter

Stiff Penalty

No give

Maharashtra villagers fight land acquisition for IT park

Forest Rights Act: Who is the encroacher and who is encroached upon

Thirteen years after a historic law was formulated to give forest dwellers legal ownership of their traditional land, their fate still hangs in …

Nearly 3 years since campaign, only 5% public ponds free of encroachment in Bihar

State government was supposed to make 9,044 public ponds free of encroachment under its Jal Jeevan Hariyali Mission launched in 2018

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (October 11, 2019)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal

Latin America, the most unequal region of the world in land distribution

Economic elites use their clout to influence regulatory decisions to serve their interest by either funding political parties or controlling the media

The land rush

STRUGGLE FOR LAND AND THE FATE OF THE FORESTS Edited by Marcus Colchester and Larry Lohmann Publisher: The World Rainforest Movement, Malaysia, …

Whose land?

Ridge riddle

Daunting numbers