10 villages to get forest benefits
Maharashtra to finally give JFM villages their due, but the share is bigger, say activists
10 Maharashtra villages to finally get Rs 74.5 lakh as benefits under joint forest management scheme
Detailed accounts of revenue earned from each village forest should be made public, says activist
Seeking Solutions
POLICY THAT WORKS FOR FORESTS AND PEOPLE·James Mayers and Stephen Bass·International Institute for Environment and development (IIED)…
IFR review: Madhya Pradesh’s Van Mitra portal a tool to re-reject forest right claims, RTI data shows
Official machinery rejects claims without the knowledge of the Gram Sabha or the Forest Rights Committee
In a first, Odisha studies potential forest land under FRA
New estimate offers ‘baseline for planning and effective implementation of forest rights Act recognition’
How a restoration project in Karnataka is helping revive ecology, community livelihood
Restoration projects can set in motion a virtuous cycle of livelihoods, biodiversity and native knowledge
FRA helps Dhenkanal tribals gain land rights
Their ancestors were brought in as workers nearly a century ago by the former princely state
An open letter to forest denizens to avoid being roadkill
The hapless leopard, imprudent tiger, unreasonable tortoise, witless pangolin, incautious deer and the irrational elephant should just stop …
Bone of contention
Neither Project Tiger nor the eco-development project can end the conflicts between the forest officials and the villagers in Ranthambhore
People’s rights and status of forest in limbo for 53 years in Andhra Pradesh
The rights of the people were supposed to be settled under Section 4 of the Indian Forest Act; but they were not, eventually
Centre to give Indian Forest Act a facelift
The environment ministry has started comprehensively amending the Act by “weeding out” and updating obsolete provisions
The relation between tanks and trees
For survival of the traditional water management structures, one must understand the linkages between the tanks and trees
Time to act
The Madhya Pradesh government has recently sent a letter to the Prime Minister seeking changes in the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980. The …
Forest states want money in lieu of felling
On August 1, 2003, Madhya Pradesh made a plea in the Supreme Court seeking a fund-generating mechanism for forest protection. Earlier, in June, …
A window for forest people
NTFPS-EP is a network working with adivasis on ecosystem conservation, advocacy and livelihoods
Women in Odisha village take charge to fast track community forest rights
This isn’t the first time women have come together to not only protect forests, but also voice their demand for recognition of the Forest …
Middle path of conservation
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How can India overcome policy and institutional gaps in forest management
We need to recognise the Gram Sabha as empowered by the 73rd Constitutional Amendment
At loggerheads
While the state government is keen to introduce JFM, villagers say there is no need for that since they have been carrying out all protection …
Message in a baton
The decades after Independence saw rampant destruction of trees. This was followed by years of drought. It was then that the villagers realised …
Forest rights and wrongs
MODERN FORESTS, STATEMAKING AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE IN COLONIAL EASTERN INDIA· K Sivaramakrishnan·Oxford University Press·…
Case for CFM
COMMUNITY FOREST MANAGEMENT — A CASEBOOK FROM INDIA·Joe Human and Manoj Pattanaik·Oxfam Publishing, Oxford·176pp·…
Centre ignores certifying agency
Private players set up forest certification body even as the ministry, which manages 90 per cent of the forests, gives it a cold shoulder
Spreading root
OLD ROOTS, NEW SHOOTS: A STUDY OF JOINT FOREST MANAGEMENT IN ANDHRA PRADESH·C S Rangachari and S D Mukherji·Winrock International …
Crossroad
nitin sethi visits Arunachal Pradesh and finds the Apatani grappling with stereotypes and change