Discordant notes dash empowerment dreams

A clash of opinions has put paid to all hopes of a consensus on the empowerment of people living in and around national parks and sanctuaries

Telangana’s new forest conflict panels bring Centre-state land rights relation under scanner

FRA empowers Gram Sabhas and the committees headed by the sub collectors and the district collectors to determine and recognise the forest rights …

Conserving nature leads to higher net economic value: Study

It also pointed out that conservation and restoration did not universally provide greater net value than intensive human usage

An old man and his baton: Meet Damodar Kashyap

Kashyap has ensured food, and livelihood in Bastar villages by offering them thriving forests

India’s biodiversity can help mitigate environmental threats

It is one of the 17 mega biodiversity-rich countries and accounts for 7 to 8 per cent of the recorded species of the world

Building a forest in the heart of Karachi

The Japanese method of mimicking nature, and growing forests in the heart of the city, is being picked up in Pakistan, India and elsewhere as a …

Supreme Court pulls up Centre for not using Rs 90,000 crore meant for environment

The court also suspects misuse of funds as a recent affidavit showed that the money was being used for construction of roads, renovation of bus …

Of inclusive conservation and exclusionary orders

Forest-dwelling communities have the capabilities and desire to contribute to wildlife conservation, so why are we dismissing them?

Streamlining forest protection law

States are complaining that project clearance delays are turning out to be the worst fallout of the Forest Conservation Act, which has otherwise …

Order out of chaos

New Zealand's far-reaching reforms in conservation and forest management has "changed the face of forestry" in the country

‘Lianas threaten Earth’s carbon sinks’

Field ecologist Alain Ngute explains how lianas have lower carbon sequestering capacity than trees & when they compete for sunlight in the …

People's forests

Going up?

The new forest report claims that forest cover in India has increased

Villagers in charge

Bamboo trouble

Forest fiasco

Laos' forests may go for a six following the implementation of two forest-aid packages

Logging for growth

CHINA

Tree's a crowd

The loggers' chainsaws may not spell doom for tropical forest lands after all

Gdp adn Forests

TALIBAN SEEK HELP

Peru

Voters' tactic

Orissa's forest groups want candidates to be answerable

Old forests are critically important for slowing climate change and merit immediate protection from logging

A majority of national forest area that is mature and old growth is not protected from logging

Potential of intact forests in mitigating climate risks undermined: Report

While deforestation alone accounted for 3.2% of gross carbon emissions, selective logging, edge effects, and wildlife loss spiked carbon …