CAG flags community centre under FRA actually MP govt tourist lodge in Pench
CAG slams action as being tantamount to misuse of powers by forest department and against spirit of Forest (Conservation) Act
Report flags violations in creation of India’s first critical wildlife habitats
CWH notification was first initiated in 54 of Maharashtra’s 55 protected areas, where rights of forest dwellers can be recognised under …
Trichy’s elephant rescue centre is a haven for abused pachyderms
Since its commencement last year, the centre has cared for those elephants who have been ill-treated by private owners
Uttarakhand Van Gujjars allege forest officials assaulted women; probe underway
Rajaji National Park area villagers allege they tried to lodge two FIRs, but police did not register them
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 3, 2020)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
Two incidents that made me ask: Whither forestry extension?
Extension programmes in forest institutions are meant to benefit stakeholders, mainly farmers, villagers and rural communities
Hubballi-Ankola railway line will augur desertification, water crisis, warn experts
The proposed 164-kilometre railway project cutting through Western Ghats will prompt deforestation and accelerate climate change …
How COVID-19 made forest rights battle tougher for Tharu women
The Adivasi women of Lakhimpur Khiri in eastern UP show resilience
Uttarakhand opens biodiversity park in Haldwani to encourage conservation
The state’s rich botanical heritage is facing threats from climate change, degrading landscapes, habitat loss and development activities
Chhattisgarh revokes: Forest dept no longer nodal agency for community rights
Chhattisgarh government reinstates the role of the forest department to coordinate claims that are to be filed by communities, …
Uttarakhand’s tulip garden offers glimpse into state’s largest germplasm collection
The garden is minor part of state’s largest germplasm collection of rare, endemic vegetation, put together by Uttarakhand forest dept in …
COVID-19: Gujarat forest dept officials allegedly torched huts, fields
The state’s forest officials told villagers to evict land or face consequences
कैग ने पकड़ी राजस्थान के वन एवं पर्यावरण विभाग की खामियां
वन्यजीव एवं पर्यावरण संबंधी अपराधों में राजस्थान का नंबर दूसरा है, बावजूद इसके सरकार गंभीर नहीं है
Go-ahead for Vedanta’s Jharkhand steel plant despite forest encroachment
MoEF&CC regularised 174 hectares encroached forest land in Bokaro in December 2019, after spate of opposition from state forest dept
Native tree species are climate resilient, maintain ecological balance
Introducing exotic species and promoting monoculture plantations in forest areas, village common lands have caused disastrous impacts on the …
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 19, 2019)
UP forest dept cites stayed SC order for eviction
Although activists and forest dwellers could resist this attempt, the notice that came a day after still didn’t have any mention of the stay
'Progressive' Maharashtra governor must step in to save tribal land, rights
Communities expect Ch Vidyasagar Rao to stop massive diversion of their lands to sundry government projects
Premise of SC ruling on forest dwellers wrong: UN Special Rapporteur
Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, UN rapporteur on the rights of indigenous people, says tribals are treated like squatters all around the world
Chhattisgarh forest department expense avoidable: CAG
The department’s actions caused an excess expenditure of Rs 2.03 crore in the year 2014-15, says auditor
Jharkhand govt doesn’t have legal rights over 38% of its forest
The state forest department has not issued final notifications to convert 7.33 lakh hectares of forest land, rendering this land legally …
Amended Tamil Nadu forest Act must be cautiously exercised
While forests under private ownership have already been destroyed with cash crops, if the provisions of the Act are further relaxed the state&…
Odisha loses 24th elephant in 8 years on railway tracks
While forest department wants speed checks, railways seek better coordination
‘It may be too late to contain virus outbreak killing Gir lions’
An American researcher, who worked on mitigating the canine distemper outbreak in Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park in 1994, talks to Down …
Some forest questions
The State of Forest Report 2017 does provide important nuggets of insights into what is happening today
